04/27/1961
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"Our country can use the coming months as the leader of the Free World to demonstrate that it is the leader in fact as well as in name."
"I'm hopeful that we can be associated with that movement."
"The United States still holds some 43% of the Free World's monetary gold stock, a proportion far larger than our share of its trade and clearly sufficient to tide us over a temporary deficit period--a..."
"I hope that some of your most alarming feelings of a year ago about the imminent collapse of the whole business system if I was elected have been somewhat lessened."