John F. Kennedy: “In Latin America, Communist agents seeking to exploit that region's peaceful revolution of hope have established a base…”

For you and I are privileged to serve the great Republic in what could be the most decisive decade in its long history.

First, we need to strengthen our Nation by investing in our youth.

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.

But there is no comfort or security for us in evasion, no solution in abdication, no relief in irresponsibility.