John Fitzgerald Kennedy

I express my thanks to all who are working in it, and I think that includes 180 million Americans.

There are several million Americans who are voluntarily working to maintain this program.

This is a time of great change in our country--economic and social and scientific life.

This country has a strong tradition of individual self-reliance, but we also recognize that there are people who, through no fault of their own, need our help.

I want to express a very warm sense of appreciation which all of us feel to you for the work that you are doing.

I really came here today not to make any particular proposals, but to indicate my strong feeling that the United Nations must be supported by the United States, and that other countries must not only support it verbally, but must support…

I express my thanks to all of you.

The United Nations has been criticized, has been under attack, for a good many years, but as Mr. Frost has said about not taking down a wall until you know why it is put up, if there wasn't a United Nations we would certainly have to…

I hope you stay here, and I want you to know that in Washington we are strongly behind you and we are very grateful that you are here and that the United States Delegation to the United Nations is led by our distinguished friend, Governor…

We have left behind prejudice, superstition and ignorance which since the dawn of time distorted our thinking about the mentally retarded.

Our present system of care might better be called our system of 'don't care'.

Never in the history of man has it been possible to achieve greater gains against this grave and complex problem.

Society for too long has closed the door against the mentally retarded.

There can be no greater evidence of American vitality, intelligence and humanitarian tradition.

Between the third and fourth, 25 months.

I would like to see us skip a recession.

I do not say that a recession is inevitable without a tax cut, or impossible with one, but, excluding war years, we have had a recession on the average every 42 months since World War II.

Recessions mean high unemployment and high budget deficits.

They have helped to cause recessions in previous years, including 1958 and 1960, and unless they are reduced, they can cause recessions again.

We are the only country, nearly, in the West which has such a large percentage of unemployed.

And I say again in the next 2 1/2 years we need 10,000 new jobs every day for a total of 10 million jobs.

Recessions are not inevitable.

This Nation needs a tax cut now, not a tax cut if and when, but a tax cut now, and for the future.

But our loss from excessive unemployment in recent years has been 20 times as great as our loss from strikes.

I have no doubt that the nuclear test ban treaty will be approved by the Senate, and by a margin large enough to show the world that the American people want a just peace.