John F. Kennedy: “And while no nation has ever faced such a challenge, no nation has ever been so ready to seize the burden and the glory…”

We need a new law--a wholly new approach--a bold new instrument of American trade policy.

If we move decisively, our factories and farms can increase their sales to their richest, fastest-growing market.

But the world was not meant to be a prison in which man awaits his execution.

I speak today in an hour of national peril and national opportunity.