The Board shall be guided in the performance of its functions by the provisions of subsections (b) and (c) of section 304 of the Government Employees' Incentive Awards Act, and by any additional criteria established by the Board.

I WANT to state what a pleasure it is to have Mr. Bowles accept this position of responsibility.

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

This is an important anniversary for all of us, the 20th anniversary of Pearl Harbor.

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.

I want to express my pleasure at this invitation.

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.

It's warmer here today than it was yesterday!

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.

We can keep going by not merely invoking the past, but by using the past as a stimulus to the future.

We are not omniscient--we are not all-powerful--this is a free society.

It's no accident that Communists concentrate their attention on the trade union movement.

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.

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.

I'm hopeful that we can be associated with that movement.

And we are coming back in January and we are going to start again.

What unites labor, what unites this country, is far more important than those things on which we may disagree.

We can use tariffs to cushion adjustment instead of using them only to shut off competition.

Contrary to the assertion that this nation has been living beyond its means abroad, we have been increasing those means instead.

We're unable to maintain the kind of high employment which we must maintain, unless you are making profits, and reinvesting, and producing;

In the paramilitary arenas of subversion, intimidation and insurrection, an open and peaceful society is again at a disadvantage.

It's not an exaggeration to say that this endeavor proceeds under conditions today more fraught with peril than any in our history.

When you do well, the United States does well, and our policies abroad do well.

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.

I remind you of this only to indicate the happy failure of many of our most pessimistic predictions.