We want others to bear their proportionate share of the burden but we do not suggest that we in the United States should fail or flinch or become fatigued.

This is a tremendous burden which falls upon the United States and the people of this country.

There is no easy solution.

I welcome you to Washington.

So as I said a year ago in assuming the Presidency, no generation has ever borne a greater responsibility than this generation, and as a member of it I welcome that responsibility.

This nation still falls far short of its responsibility.

I have recommended added funds for the National Institute of Mental Health to increase its program for the training of professional mental health workers and physicians.

This program supports fundamental research in biology and other sciences, and strengthens the research capabilities of universities and other institutions.

The nation's health depends on the availability and efficient use of highly trained and skilled professional people.

The basic resource of a nation is its people.

We must, therefore, continue to stimulate this flow of inventive ideas by supporting medical research along a very broad front.

I am asking the American people to join in a nationwide vaccination program to stamp out these four diseases.

I am confident that the work of this Panel will help us chart the path toward our ultimate goal of preventing this tragic condition.

I therefore recommend again the enactment of a health insurance program for the elderly under the Social Security system.

Paint us with all our blemishes and warts, all those things about us that may not be so immediately attractive.

For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

I also invite the Governors of the States to provide for the observance of National Defense Transportation Day.

I put such great importance in the work that you are doing.

Now, Therefore, I, John F. Kennedy, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate Friday, May 18, 1962, as National Defense Transportation Day.

I salute you on your 20th birthday and say that in the next 20 years when these choices will become more vital to us, I believe that the Voice of America will be fulfilling its function, as it did that first day when it committed itself to…

I, John F. Kennedy, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim Saturday, April 14, 1962, as Pan American Day, and the period from April 8 through April 14, 1962, as Pan American Week

I also urge all United States citizens and interested organizations to participate in commemorating Pan American Day and Pan American Week in view of the importance of inter-American friendship to our own national welfare and that of the…

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values.

We believe that people are capable of standing the burdens and the pressures which choice places upon them.

The Voice of America occupies, I believe, a key part in the story of American life.