John Fitzgerald Kennedy

It is a proud privilege to be a citizen of the Great Republic.

We can no longer afford the luxury of endless debate over all the complicated and sensitive questions raised by each new proposal on Federal participation in education.

The proper Federal role is to identify national education goals and to help local, state and private authorities build the necessary roads to reach those goals.

Education is the keystone in the arch of freedom and progress.

Our present American educational system was founded on the principle that opportunity for education in this country should be available to all--not merely to those who have the ability to pay.

A free Nation can rise no higher than the standard of excellence set in its schools and colleges.

These unresolved labor disputes threaten a strike affecting a substantial part of the ballistics missile, space vehicle and military aircraft industry.

Your invitation to enter into a joint effort to review and revise the public land laws is therefore most welcome.

The immediate prospect of population pressures which will tax land resources demands policies aimed at current and future objectives, including the preservation of natural conditions for public enjoyment.

On January 25, 1963, I received the Board's written report in this matter.

I direct you, pursuant to the Provisions of Section 208 of the Labor-Management Relations Act, 1947, to petition in the name of the United States any District Court of the United States having jurisdiction of the parties to enjoin such…

On January 23, 1963, by virtue of the authority vested in me by Section 206 of the Labor-Management Relations Act of 1947 (29 U.S.C. 176), I issued Executive Order No. 11078 creating a Board of Inquiry to inquire into issues involved in…

In any event, as indicated above, we can see some benefit in consolidating and perhaps clarifying the various laws.

It has, in your phrase, been 'in accordance with the time honored conservation principle of effecting the maximum good for the maximum number.'

In unity this alliance has ample strength to hold back the expansion of communism until such time as it loses its force and momentum.

This sort of struggle to see who can stand the pressure the longest may be of interest to one side or the other, but it's hard on those involved.

That was not the policy of the United States in April 1961.

My recommendation for early revision of our tax structure is not motivated by any threat of imminent recession--nor should it be rejected by any fear of inflation or of weakening the dollar as a world currency.

It doesn't come under the Taft-Hartley because it's not a national emergency, but it is a hardship on the men involved.

I'm hopeful that the two sides will make a judgment that free collective bargaining must be responsible if it's going to be really free.

But the liaison is very immediate.

Enactment of this program will help strengthen every segment of the American economy and bring us closer to every basic objective of American economic policy.

There is no influx of military equipment, other than the ship.

The sooner the program is enacted, the sooner it will make its impact upon the economy, providing additional benefits and further insurance against recession.

Investment will be expanded, as the rate of return on capital formation is increased, and as growing consumer markets create a need for new capacity.