John Fitzgerald Kennedy

I consider it our most direct responsibility.

We cannot accept any agreement that does not provide for an effective international process that will tell the world whether the treaty is being observed.

I don't recommend it to others—at least for a while.

We must work with our friends and trading partners to achieve a more equitable sharing of the burdens of aid and defense, and to build a stronger international financial system.

A start has been made over the past year, but much still remains to be done.

If we can become export-minded, with these tremendous markets which are developing all over the world, it will mean a good deal.

I believe the United States is competitive and I believe that our efficiency and productivity and managerial skills all can mean a good deal to American business and the workingman and to our country.

If we can continue to build our exports then we can continue to finance our security obligations overseas.

I particularly urge prompt consideration and approval by the Congress of each of the specific measures summarized at the end of the Secretary's Report.

We must do more, consistent with our responsibilities for leadership of the free world, to stem the outward flow of dollars from Government programs.

I hope every businessman in the country will become interested--will examine what is available to him.

All of us are very familiar with the necessity for the United States to maintain an ever-increasing export trade.

I determine that it is desirable and appropriate to delay the effective dates of such Proclamations of March 19, 1962.

The fact that you have supported this indicates that you believe that this is the most effective and responsible way to meet a very serious national problem.

I am hopeful that the fact that so many outstanding doctors who believe in the responsibilities of the profession very strongly and have demonstrated it in their careers, I am hopeful that this support for this concept of medical care for…

I want to express my appreciation to you for your statement, and also for the support that your statement has been given by some of the most distinguished members of the medical profession in the United States.

And therefore, doctor, and the other members of this committee, I want to say that in supporting this I believe that you are helping to meet the very great responsibility which the medical profession faces to care for our citizens.

Now, Therefore, I, John F. Kennedy, President of the United States of America, under and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Act of June 8, 1906 (34 Stat. 225; 16 U.S.C. 431), do proclaim that the lands within the following…

I want to express my thanks to you.

I, John F. Kennedy, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the week beginning May 6, 1962, as National Youth Fitness Week.

I request officials of the Government, and I urge parents, young people, our schools, and interested national and local organizations, to use all appropriate means now and during that week to promote programs and activities demonstrating…

The waste and distress which characterize these periodic recessions can and must be abated.

Accordingly, I urge that we initiate as soon as possible a $600 million capital improvements program in the redevelopment areas and in the communities which have been designated for 12 months or more as areas of substantial unemployment.

The stand-by capital improvements bill, and this proposal for an immediate public facilities program, are in my judgment of equal importance to the economic welfare of our Nation.

I believe that a further Federal effort is necessary, both to provide immediate useful work for the unemployed and the under-employed, and to help these and other hardpressed communities, through improvement of their public facilities, to…