John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Unless prompt action is taken workers who exhaust their regular benefits after March 31, 1962, will no longer be able to receive any unemployment compensation.

I believe it is important that it does so.

The burden of excessively high unemployment compensation taxes that exist in several States would be removed.

The imminent expiration of the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation program at a time when unemployment is still high and there are large numbers of long-term unemployed makes enactment of the permanent improvements I have…

We in America are proud to be allied with the Turkish people in a determined effort to bring peace and prosperity to all mankind.

FIFTEEN years ago today, President Truman, in a historic declaration, announced the purpose of the United States to help the Turkish people defend their freedom and independence.

I believe that with this kind of public support, that the Congress of the United States can enact this legislation this year.

We cannot, with the expiration of the present Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation program, abdicate our responsibility to these workers.

This legislation is a vital part of the programs I believe essential to assure sustained prosperity and to strengthen our manpower base.

The historical bonds of friendship which unite our nations have been strengthened by President Truman's historic decision, and I am confident that, in the future, these ties will grow ever stronger.

The merits of the proposals for permanent legislation I have recommended are well-established.

When enacted, the legislation will exert a stabilizing effect upon our economy, helping to maintain consumer purchasing power and cushioning any economic reverses.

We are ever mindful of the vital role which the Turkish nation has played and continues to play in the NATO defensive shield.

The United States thus can take satisfaction from the outcome of the Geneva negotiations.

Our balance of payments problem would disappear overnight if it were not for the effort which we are making in Europe and other places around the world to permit those areas to maintain their freedom.

We could not permit this to happen.

So that as an American I am proud of the effort that this country has made.

It is not a matter which should separate us on the basis of party, but is a matter which I think concerns us all as Americans and as people who believe in the development of our country.

We don't seek satellites but friends.

So that this is a great system and a great cause with which we are identified, and I am especially anxious, both from our own economic interests--agriculture, labor and business--that we become more intimately associated with the great…

We live in a difficult time, and our problems are difficult, and I know many Americans get discouraged, and also are concerned with whether we are doing enough in many areas of the world.

We have a great story to tell, and I am hopeful that as Western Europe, which has really come out of the ashes in such a short time, and the tremendous vitality of the United States, and that of Japan, if tied closer and closer together…

We want to maintain, both for economic and political reasons, the closest association with Europe, and stretching the other way with Japan.

This is a free society and a free economy, and we do believe that freedom and, really, progress is best served by permitting people to advance their private interests.

I think all of us have a public obligation, all of us owe some of our lives and some of our effort to the advancement of the interests of our society, particularly when our society bears such heavy burdens as it does here and around the…