Well, I'll be glad--you and I share--I would be glad to check into it and find out if there is anything that is improper about it.
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.
Every April the Wall Street Journal writes a story on the left-hand side of the paper, reporting that Congressmen who have come back find great apathy about the President's programs.
We hope the American people will join in giving not only large gifts but also very small ones as a mark of the universal appreciation for her long work.
Mrs. Roosevelt, who in the largest sense needs no memorial, but will also be contributing directly to those causes for which she marked her life.
She also made her experience in the White House a vivid one in that her influence spread far beyond its walls to all parts of the country.
I hope that from this meeting and from our work during the month of May that legislative results will come.
I just want you to know that you are most welcome to the White House.
I hope that all of you will visit the White House and perhaps you will arrange that.
We are, even though we hesitate to admit it, a cultured people and I hope we will be more so.
It makes us feel better about this country to see you all here today.
This is the sixth of a series of concerts which, I think, have brought home to the people of Washington, and I hope to the country, what an extraordinary cultural surge is taking place in the United States in these days and years.
So we are glad to have you here today, particularly these young men and women from Kentucky.
And we are glad to have the members of the Symphony from Central Kentucky who represent the cream of musical talent, who represent a series of elimination's which have brought them here to the White House.
When we use that word, we use it in the sense--really in the Greek sense--of the full man and woman living in a full system of freedom who develops his own resources and talents and in so doing serves the greater good of all of our people.
We have a good many television sets, but also those television sets receive programs from nearly 70 educational televisions which are maintained by private citizens across this country which carry with them strong educational overtones.
As I have other responsibilities I will listen from my office and, as I have on previous occasions, I will keep the door very wide open.





