John F. Kennedy: “Today we still welcome those winds of change--and we have every reason to believe that our tide is running strong.”

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

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.

Our decision could well affect the unity of the West, the course of the Cold War, and the economic growth of our Nation for a generation to come.

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…