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.
The sooner the program is enacted, the sooner it will make its impact upon the economy, providing additional benefits and further insurance against recession.
In unity this alliance has ample strength to hold back the expansion of communism until such time as it loses its force and momentum.
It doesn't come under the Taft-Hartley because it's not a national emergency, but it is a hardship on the men involved.
The economic prospects of our depressed areas will improve as investors obtain new incentives to create additional productive facilities in areas of labor surplus.
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.
In my opinion such dispute threatens to result in a strike affecting a substantial part of an industry engaged in trade or commerce among the several States or with foreign nations, or in the production of goods for commerce, which strike…
I look to the American Freedom from Hunger Foundation to provide active citizen leadership and, to that end, I ask that the trustees of the Foundation serve as a National Citizens' Host Committee for the World Food Congress.
I urge American citizens in all walks of life to participate in the observance of National Freedom from Hunger Week.
I ask the American Freedom from Hunger Foundation to take national leadership in planning appropriate observance of this week.
It is appropriate as the new statute becomes effective to reaffirm the principle that all government officers and employees must act with integrity, impartiality and devotion to the public interest.
By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1962 (76 Stat. 121-124; hereinafter referred to as the Act), and as President of the United States, it is ordered as follows:
I also ask that all Government departments and agencies which have official responsibilities in the field of food, nutrition, and international relations take appropriate steps to observe, and to cooperate with private groups in observing…
It is desirable that we hold to or better the schedule laid down in 1961, and reach firm decisions as soon as practicable in 1963 on future actions concerning the development of a supersonic aircraft.
It is essential that these decisions be made only after the most thorough evaluation of all the probable benefits and costs to the Government and to the national economy.
I stated that studies on the economic and technical feasibility of a commercial supersonic transport should be expedited and the results evaluated as soon as practicable.
more vigorous expansion of our economy is imperative to gain the heights of maximum employment, production, and purchasing power
I ask that each of you give this matter his personal attention and that your recommendations reflect your considered judgment on this important matter.
The state of the economy poses a perplexing challenge to the American people
I do not expect a fifth postwar recession to interrupt our progress in 1963
economic condition of the United States in 1962 was one of continued advances in employment, production, and purchasing power
Compared with the funds required for other programs for the national good, those requested by this Commission for this program are modest indeed.





