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.

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

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

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,

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

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

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…

The same people who produced the poetry of Homer, the wisdom of Plato and Aristotle--they also produced the Olympic Games.

I view the growing emphasis on professionalism and specialization in amateur sports without great enthusiasm.

We have become more and more not a nation of athletes but a nation of spectators.

There is hereby established the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, with ribbons and appurtenances, for award to personnel of the Armed Forces of the United States who after July 1, 1958