This Administration will not distort the value of the dollar in any fashion.
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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Prudence and good sense do require, however, that new steps be taken to ease the payments deficit and prevent any gold crisis.
For the troubles of a world organization merely reflect the troubles of the world itself.
In short, whatever is required will be done to back up all our efforts abroad, and to make certain that, in the future as in the past, the dollar is as "sound as a dollar.
One third of our most promising high school graduates are financially unable to continue the development of their talents.
We lack the scientists, the engineers and the teachers our world obligations require.
We have neglected oceanography, saline water conversion, and the basic research that lies at the root of all progress.
Federal grants for both higher and public school education can no longer be delayed.
Medical research has achieved new wonders--but these wonders are too often beyond the reach of too many people, owing to a lack of income (particularly among the aged), a lack of hospital beds, a lack of nursing homes and a lack of doctors…
Measures to provide health care for the aged under Social Security, and to increase the supply of both facilities and personnel, must be undertaken this year.
Organized and juvenile crimes cost the taxpayers millions of dollars each year, making it essential that we have improved enforcement and new legislative safeguards.
The product of our abundance must be used more effectively to relieve hunger and help economic growth in all corners of the globe.