John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The Public Record
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.
I think Mr. Nixon and the Republican Party will be rejected on November 8, 1960.
I think in 1960, if we choose progress, it can be a rising sun for this country and the beginning of a great new day.
I say as the standard bearer for the Democratic Party, as a member of a party which has produced Franklin Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, and Governor Lawrence and Senator Clark, a party which believes in progress, we commit ourselves to a…
Mr. Nixon can apply any label he wants to this record, but the record speaks far more eloquently than his changing definitions.
I am delighted to be here with my friend and colleague in the Senate, who has fought for Pennsylvania and this country, with your distinguished Governor, the great sports columnist, Gov. David Lawrence.
I have consistently and outspokenly classified myself as an 'economic conservative.'
If there was ever a formula for inaction, for standing still, for those Americans who don't want anything done, that is the solution.
Today, we stand on the threshold of a New Frontier, for all Americans.
I pledge that a new administration will move at once to put our people back to work.
I am a Democrat, east, west, north, south, a Democrat who stands in the tradition of Franklin Roosevelt, in Pennsylvania, in California in Georgia, in Massachusetts.
I spent long enough in the Pacific Ocean to know the difficulties with which Mr. Nixon is now facing the United States, if he has his way.
Mr. Nixon's new definition of himself as a practical progressive" enunciated in Los Angeles yesterday further adds to the confusion of just where the Vice President stands on the key issues facing our country.
I ask you to join us in moving this country ahead, in giving this country new leadership.
In the public works bill last year, the Democratic Congress added 67 new starts.
Mr. Nixon can call it practical progressivism or economic conservatism, but the label does not hide the package.
But we can afford these things, if we do one thing - and that is get this country back to full employment.
If the United States is going to meet its commitments around the world, and I favor the United States meeting all of its commitments, if we are going to maintain in this country and around the world the cause of freedom, if we are going to…
The Republican Party has vetoed the needs of Pennsylvania, has vetoed Pennsylvania.
I am willing to debate the wisdom of challenging the Red Chinese to a nuclear war over a couple of islands that every military authority says are strategically worthless and which cannot be defended except by nuclear war.





