John F. Kennedy: “And while the blight of communism has been increasingly exposed and isolated in the Americas, liberty has scored a gain.”

For together we face a common challenge: to enlarge the prosperity of free men everywhere--to build in partnership a new trading community in which all free nations may gain from the productive energy of free competitive effort.

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

Our instrument and our hope is the United Nations--and I see little merit in the impatience of those who would abandon this imperfect world instrument because they dislike our imperfect world.

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