John Fitzgerald Kennedy

The growth of our cities, the development of our industry, the expansion of our transportation systems--all manifestations of our vigorous and expanding society preempt irreplaceable lands of natural beauty and unique recreation value.

Nowhere is the profile of the best of American youth better drawn than in our Peace Corps volunteers.

This is still the greatest nation in the world in which a child can be born and raised.

As a further step to carry out the Committee's recommendations, I am requesting the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, as part of the Council's role in advising me on economic policy, to organize, under his chairmanship, an…

I am asking the Director of the Bureau of the Budget to take the lead in assuring an effective and equitable application of those guidelines.

The need for an aggressive program to provide for our outdoor recreation needs is both real and immediate.

I am also asking the Secretary of the Treasury both to participate in the work of the advisory committee dealing with special economic problems and, as part of his general responsibility for administering debt management and for reviewing…

A high rate of investment in education is essential for our national economic growth, our scientific advancement and our national security.

The future promise of any nation can be directly measured by the present prospects of its youth.

There is another side of the picture--the school drop-outs, the untrained and the unemployed and the underprivileged, the nearly one million young Americans arrested for infractions of the law, the growing number sent to correctional…

I suggest that all departments and agencies administering loans, loan guarantee and insurance programs (including related grant programs) be guided by the principles outlined in the Report in administering their present programs and…

Americans are seeking the out-of-doors as never before--about 90 percent participate annually in some form of outdoor recreation.

Most American children enjoy excellent health.

Congratulations on your victory in the historic referendum on Saturday.

This demonstration of support should renew your confidence in the rightness of your course and strengthen your resolve to lead Iran to further achievements in the struggle to better the lot of your people.

This report tells a great American story-it is the record of the deeds by which Negroes and their fellow Americans have given life and meaning to the words of Abraham Lincoln and the Founding Fathers before him.

I should like now to express my deep appreciation to the Commissioners, the Commission staff and the able scholars who assisted them in producing this document.

In freeing themselves, the Negroes have enlarged the freedoms of all Americans.

The distance still to be traveled one hundred years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation is at once a reproach and a challenge.

It must be our purpose to continue steady progress until the promise of equal rights for all has been fulfilled.

I earnestly hope that the Congress will give early and favorable consideration to this proposed legislation.

In the interest of inter-American friendship and solidarity, I urge all United States citizens and interested organizations to contribute enthusiastically, by words and works, toward making Pan American Day and Pan American Week occasion…

I, John F. Kennedy, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim Sunday, April 14, 1963 as Pan American Day, and the week from April 14 through April 20, 1963, as Pan American Week

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

There still is a body of Soviet military equipment and technicians which I think is of serious concern to this Government and the hemisphere.