Address in Chicago at the 1960 Victory Fund Dinner Rally
09/28/1960
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For over six decades we have worked together to create and maintain strong democratic institutions.
We are both members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, an alliance that seeks only security and peace.
Leadership is not proved by a mere whirling across the public stage in a burst of glib oratory.
The day that we don't have to work, that's the day you will have to call the United States second rate.