The President's News Conference
04/20/1961
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I am not trying to run America down; I am trying to build America up.
I ask your help in this campaign, and I can assure you that if we are successful, we are going to work to make the United States not first i...
Mr. Nixon says I am running America down.
I think our future can be assured, but I think we have a responsibility to ourselves and to those who look to us to move in this country.