John Fitzgerald Kennedy

There has been talk of the risks this painting took by leaving the Louvre. They are real, though exaggerated.

And therefore, Mr. Minister, we welcome this painting and all that it signifies, and particularly because we are grateful to the Government of France for sending not only one of her most cherished works of art, but also one of her most…

Mr. Minister, this painting is the second lady that the people of France have sent to the United States, and though she will not stay with us as long as the Statue of Liberty, our appreciation is equally great.

Leonardo da Vinci was not only an artist and a sculptor, an architect and a scientist, and a military engineer, an occupation which he pursued, he tells us, in order to preserve the chief gift of nature, which is liberty.

Mr. Minister, we in the United States are grateful for this loan from the leading artistic power in the world, France.

He has seen in the past the promise of the future, and has taken his place among those few statesmen of the West, who grasped the possibilities and the meaning of history, and thus were able to shape the ultimate course of our own society.

We here tonight, among them many of the men entrusted with the destiny of this Republic, also come to pay homage to this great creation of the civilization which we share, the beliefs which we protect, and the aspirations toward which we…

Each has been delivered from the foreign rule of another by the other's friendship and courage.

I shall expect each of you, as the officers primarily responsible for the administration of the four major statutory salary systems dealt with in the 1962 Act, to devote personal attention to these points.

This Administration has vigorously espoused the principle of comparability of Federal salary rates with those of private enterprise.

It is very reassuring to me to know that I may call on you for your help and guidance in the future.

I am grateful you have been able to remain as the head of these negotiations for as long as you have, and I now reluctantly accept your resignation as Chairman of the United States disarmament negotiations effective December 31, 1962.

The draft test ban treaties and the United States outline disarmament treaty introduced by you into the Geneva negotiations were the most serious and far-reaching documents of this character which the United States had ever put forward.

The American people look forward to the coming year with the deepest desire that the cause of peace be advanced.

Actions deferred are all too often opportunities lost, particularly in safeguarding our natural resources.

But the diary and autobiography do not leave an image of narrow conceit and severe austerity.

His introduction in Volume I is a literary model for any archival publication.

There is no precedent for the simultaneous appearance of so many publications so vital to historical research and public understanding of our past.

It will be independent in moments of great national peril, which is really the only time you consider using nuclear weapons anyway.

So Skybolt is the top of the art of missilery.

Because I don't think the British wanted to put the kind of investment we are talking about into the development of Polaris, which would cost them a good deal of money, unless they felt there might come an occasion, conceivably, where the…

Well, I think we are more aware, probably, that we are going to incur at intervals people's displeasure.

Well, I think it would seem to me that if anybody bothered to read the pact in detail--we made several offers to the British.

In any case, I felt that the offer we made to the British was in keeping with both our technical and moral obligations to them.

I don't expect that the United States will be more beloved, but I would hope that we could get more done.