John Kennedy actually said...

We must be willing to devote our national energies to demonstrating in every form of human endeavor we are second to none, that we are first...

What is needed now is leadership - impartial but firm, deliberate but bold - leadership instead of rhetoric.

and we are going to need effective leadership in the White House to achieve our goal.

The farmer is the only man in our economy who has to buy everything at retail, sell everything at wholesale, and pay the freight both ways.