John F. Kennedy: “But in matters of health, no piece of unfinished business is more important or more urgent than the enactment under the…”

And we will have forged across the Atlantic a trading partnership with vast resources for freedom.

For my part, I shall withhold from neither the Congress nor the people any fact or report, past, present, or future, which is necessary for an informed judgment of our conduct and hazards.

If, on the other hand, we hang back in deference to local economic pressures, we will find ourselves cut off from our major allies.

Our Constitution wisely assigns both joint and separate roles to each branch of the government; and a President and a Congress who hold each other in mutual respect will neither permit nor attempt any trespass.