John Kennedy actually said...

The central purpose of the United Nations is to keep the peace wherever possible and to restore the peace whenever it is broken.

Special Message to the Congress Transmitting a Bill for the Purchase of United Nations Bonds

01/29/1962

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I speak today in an hour of national peril and national opportunity.

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