If we move decisively, our factories and farms can increase their sales to their richest, fastest-growing market.
John F. Kennedy
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy, also known as JFK, was the 35th president of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. He was the youngest person elected president, at 43 years, and the first Catholic president. Kennedy served at the height of the Cold War, and the majority of his foreign policy concerned relations with the Soviet Union and Cuba. A member of the Democratic Party, Kennedy represented Massachusetts in both houses of the United States Congress before his presidency.
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And we will have forged across the Atlantic a trading partnership with vast resources for freedom.
If, on the other hand, we hang back in deference to local economic pressures, we will find ourselves cut off from our major allies.
Industries--and I believe this is most vital--industries will move their plants and jobs and capital inside the walls of the Common Market, and jobs, therefore, will be lost here in the United States if they cannot otherwise compete for…
Members of the Congress: The United States did not rise to greatness by waiting for others to lead.
This Nation is the world's foremost manufacturer, farmer, banker, consumer, and exporter.
For the troubles of a world organization merely reflect the troubles of the world itself.
These various elements in our foreign policy lead, as I have said, to a single goal--the goal of a peaceful world of free and independent states.
This is our guide for the present and our vision for the future--a free community of nations, independent but interdependent, uniting north and south, east and west, in one great family of man, outgrowing and transcending the hates and…
But there is no comfort or security for us in evasion, no solution in abdication, no relief in irresponsibility.
A year ago, in assuming the tasks of the Presidency, I said that few generations, in all history, had been granted the role of being the great defender of freedom in its hour of maximum danger.
The product of our abundance must be used more effectively to relieve hunger and help economic growth in all corners of the globe.