Our choice will be to assume the burdens and responsibilities of leadership.
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 Franklin Roosevelt set before us in his second acceptance speech in 1936 the issues which separate our two parties.
I have said on many occasions that Pennsylvania is key to the success of this election and also I believe Pennsylvania, a great industrial complex, has seen the effects of 8 years of Republican indifference to the needs of this State and…
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.
The Democratic Party stands for one program and one platform, North and South, East and West.
I believe the President of the United States in January 1961 should recognize this as a national problem and in every basic industry set up committees of labor, management, and the Government.
But we can afford these things, if we do one thing - and that is get this country back to full employment.
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…
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 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.
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.
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.
Today, we stand on the threshold of a New Frontier, for all Americans.
If there was ever a formula for inaction, for standing still, for those Americans who don't want anything done, that is the solution.
I have consistently and outspokenly classified myself as an 'economic conservative.'





