Remarks at the Municipal Mall in Flint, Michigan
10/05/1962
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I, John F. Kennedy, President of the United States of America, acting under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the aforesaid Act...
This nation is opposed to war.
The cost of freedom is always high--but Americans have always paid it.
We will not prematurely or unnecessarily risk the costs of worldwide nuclear war in which even the fruits of victory would be ashes in our m...