John F. Kennedy: “In a time of rapidly deteriorating situations at home and abroad, this is bad for the public service and particularly…”

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

These various elements in our foreign policy lead, as I have said, to a single goal--the goal of a peaceful world of free and independent states.

But if these programs were ever to be ended, our failures in a dozen countries would be sudden and certain.

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.