John Kennedy actually said...

The existence of this new Agency is a source of strength to me, in the performance of my responsibility to pursue a new type of world security which will increase our own prospects of living in peace and freedom.

Context

Message to the Congress Transmitting First Annual Report of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.

01/31/1962

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