John Fitzgerald Kennedy

In the life of every nation, as in the life of every man, there comes a time when a nation stands at the crossroads.

The experience of the European Common Market, where tariffs were gradually cut down, has shown that increased trade brings employment.

After the battle of New Orleans, Andrew Jackson said that he was fighting for the re-establishment of the American character.

This Administration was not elected to preside over the liquidation of American responsibility in these great years.

Our businessmen, workers and farmers are in need of new markets—and the fastest growing market in the world is the European Common Market.

We cannot sell unless we buy.

We are very glad to have you here, Chancellor.

So, Chancellor, Minister, Ambassador, ladies and gentlemen, I know that you will join with me in drinking to our guests, to the country they represent--and to the President of Austria.

I know that you all join me in welcoming the Chancellor, the foreign Minister, the State Secretary, and the Ambassador of Austria and the other members of his party, here to the United States.

The success of our economy and the well-being of our Nation are dependent upon the skills, energies, talents, and security of the individual American wage earner

The Department, as a guardian of the public interest, has proven its dedication to sound labor-management relations, has clearly recognized its responsibility to assist the business and industrial community to achieve economic growth and…

The Department has accepted a crucial and responsible role in cultivating understanding among labor organizations throughout the world and in fostering free labor institutions in other nations

The Department has striven faithfully over the years to shape sound, policies for meeting the Nation's manpower needs and for developing and utilizing the potentials of all our labor force in productive and satisfying employment

To foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners of the United States, to improve their working conditions, and to advance their opportunities for profitable employment

I hereby terminate the said proclamation, effective on the day following the date hereof.

Acting under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the statutes, including section 350 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, do proclaim

They discussed problems of mutual commercial interest, including questions of shipping policy, tariffs and commodity problems.

So I want you to know that you are most welcome here.

In any case, I am delighted to welcome you here.

I regard this as the most distinguished and significant dinner that we have had in the White House since I have been here.

I know--and gives me as an American a source of satisfaction to realize that we are the inheritors of that great martial tradition--and particularly those who won this medal, which is of course most coveted and most rare.

Your credentials to come into the White House are second to none, and we are very glad to have you.

I want to tell you how proud I am as President of the United States to welcome you all--those of you who are descended from those who won this Nation's highest decoration and those of you who carry it now.

Each of the foregoing officers may appoint a delegate to represent him in Council activity.

The Council shall be composed of the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, and the Administrator of the Housing and Home Finance Agency.