John Kennedy actually said...

I consider this meeting and the house of labor vital to the interests of this country and the cause of freedom in the coming days.

So I come here today asking your help, not for the election of 1962, though I will then, and 1964, but in the coming months, so that this se...

I remind you of this only to indicate the happy failure of many of our most pessimistic predictions.

And when you do badly, all suffer.