John Fitzgerald Kennedy

We still continue to hope that some agreement could be reached on the cessation of nuclear tests.

If we can get to the moon before the Russians, we should.

. . . we will not accept Mr. Castro's attempts to blame this nation for the hatred which his onetime supporters now regard his repression.

This message is but a first though urgent step along the road to constructive reform.

The emergence of the new African states was welcomed by both sides.

A strong and sound Federal tax system is essential to America's future.

It was agreed that cooperation between the two countries in the political, economic and cultural fields should be broadened.

It will be a major aim of our tax reform program to reverse this process, by broadening the tax base and reconsidering the rate structure.

The need to strengthen the defense of the Atlantic community was recognized, as well as the importance of promoting solidarity and the fulfillment by each member of its obligations.

Determination was expressed to strengthen the United Nations Organization.

I wish to emphasize here that they are a 'set'—and that considerations of both revenue and equity, as well as the interrelationship of many of the proposals, urge their consideration as a unit.

The tax system must be adequate to meet our public needs.

I strongly urge its adoption in this session.

The Captain has given us a possibility that some day we may swim as well as the fish--or at least deeper.

Therefore I present the National Geographic Society Gold Medal Award to Captain Jacques-Yves Cousteau, undersea pioneer to earth-bound man, who gave the key to the silent world, April 19, 1961.

These matters which involve national security and our national strength finally come to rest here--but the matter of our staff, therefore, should serve only to make sure that these important matters are brought here in a way which permits…

I want to say that it is a great pleasure and honor to participate in this event sponsored by the National Geographic, which has been a great American institution, and which has advanced our information on a whole variety of horizons in…

What we propose to do, which is to provide medical care for the aged on social security, would be regarded as hopelessly reactionary in England, but nevertheless it's new here.

We have about 7 percent unemployed.

Well, the phrase expressed our feeling that the 1960's--this coming decade-was going to be a period of entirely new material changes, that science had brought the means of a much better life for people, not only in the United States, but…

I can imagine his satisfaction in having opened up the ocean floor to man and to science.

And he is, therefore, one of the great explorers of an entirely new dimension.

We have learned in the last 60 years how to fly better than the birds--or at least higher and longer.

I think really, in many ways, it's a judicial function, where alternatives are suggested which involve great matters, and finally the President must make a decision.

We also have a serious problem because of technological and structural changes in coal, steel, basically, and, even if we have a recovery this summer, we're still going to have serious problems in some of our coal fields where the demand…