John F. Kennedy: “To meet this array of challenges--to fulfill the role we cannot avoid on the world scene--we must reexamine and revise…”

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

I shall neither shift the burden of executive decisions to the Congress, nor avoid responsibility for the outcome of those decisions.

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

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