Dec 8, 1961
I, John F. Kennedy, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the period of December 10 to December 17, 1961, as Human Rights Week
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy was the 35th President of the United States, serving from January 20, 1961, until his assassination on November 22, 1963. A member of the Democratic Party, he was born in Massachusetts and is often remembered for his leadership during the Cuban Missile Crisis, which brought the world to the brink of nuclear war. Kennedy also established the Peace Corps, promoting international service and cooperation, and he advocated for civil rights, laying the groundwork for future legislation in this area.
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Dec 6, 1961
The Democratic Party has been realistic enough to recognize the kind of problems which are coming over the horizon in the years ahead, and has had programs and policies to meet them.
Dec 6, 1961
Our country can use the coming months as the leader of the Free World to demonstrate that it is the leader in fact as well as in name.
Dec 6, 1961
It's no accident that Communists concentrate their attention on the trade union movement.
Dec 6, 1961
We can keep going by not merely invoking the past, but by using the past as a stimulus to the future.
Dec 6, 1961
What unites labor, what unites this country, is far more important than those things on which we may disagree.
Dec 6, 1961
A political party is like anything else in life; it is the survival of the fittest, and the fittest in American life today are those who look realistically at the challenges and attempt to move this country forward.
Dec 6, 1961
I consider this meeting and the house of labor vital to the interests of this country and the cause of freedom in the coming days.
Dec 6, 1961
So I come here today asking your help, not for the election of 1962, though I will then, and 1964, but in the coming months, so that this session of Congress will be fruitful.
Dec 6, 1961
This is an important anniversary for all of us, the 20th anniversary of Pearl Harbor.
Dec 6, 1961
We are not omniscient--we are not all-powerful--this is a free society.
Dec 5, 1961
What I am proposing is a joint step on both sides of the Atlantic, aimed at benefiting not only the exporters of the countries concerned but the economies of all of the countries of the Free World.
Dec 5, 1961
It's not an exaggeration to say that this endeavor proceeds under conditions today more fraught with peril than any in our history.
Dec 5, 1961
The United States still holds some 43% of the Free World's monetary gold stock, a proportion far larger than our share of its trade and clearly sufficient to tide us over a temporary deficit period--and I emphasize the words temporary…
Dec 5, 1961
I hope that some of your most alarming feelings of a year ago about the imminent collapse of the whole business system if I was elected have been somewhat lessened.
Dec 5, 1961
We're unable to maintain the kind of high employment which we must maintain, unless you are making profits, and reinvesting, and producing;
Dec 5, 1961
In the paramilitary arenas of subversion, intimidation and insurrection, an open and peaceful society is again at a disadvantage.
Dec 5, 1961
When you do well, the United States does well, and our policies abroad do well.
Dec 5, 1961
I think that while we may not have been together a year ago, we are together now, and I will be the President of the United States for the next three years,
Dec 5, 1961
I remind you of this only to indicate the happy failure of many of our most pessimistic predictions.
Dec 5, 1961
In the military arena, the initiative rests with the aggressor--a role that we shun by nature and tradition--and our alliances are largely, therefore, defensive.
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