Our top military and diplomatic leaders tried first to prevent the buildup and then to reduce it - and Chiang at one time agreed to a reduction, despite what Mr. Herter calls' his 'almost pathological interest' in keeping the islands.
Speech by Senator John F. Kennedy Prepared for a Dinner Held by the Democratic National and State Committees, Waldorf-...
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I congratulate you, the people of Delaware, the people of Maryland, and the people of the United States.
I just say that there's no sense having a program if a man who is innocent of any intelligence mission, which is true in this case, is subjected to arrest without means of defense.
It symbolizes, I believe, this highway, first of all, the partnership between the Federal Government and the States, which is essential to the progress of all of our people.
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