John Fitzgerald Kennedy

When I became President of the United States in January 1961, this State had one of the largest numbers of unemployed in the whole country, nearly 500,000 people.

I submitted a bill to make it possible for those who live in our cities and suburbs to be represented in the Cabinet.

A President of the United States, as Harry Truman has said, wears many hats.

Four of our States now have Governors who are Americans of Italian descent.

I hope that in 1962 we will meet our responsibilities in this city and country to bear our burdens of maintaining the peace, to contribute to the security of our country, to make it possible especially for the boys and girls of this…

This country had a recession in 1958; it had a recession in '60.

That's the record they're running on.

Education, medical care for the aged, job opportunities, equal rights--those are the things that this country stands for, and we can get those things only if we elect men who believe in them.

And I know you're going to reelect to the Senate, Senator Joseph Clark, who speaks for Pennsylvania and speaks for the country.

This job of building freedom around the world begins here in this State and in this country.

And I'm confident that the people of this State will elect Democratic Congressmen and elect Joe Clark again to speak for Pennsylvania and the country in the United States Senate.

The record of the Republican Party in the past 2 years, in the Congress of the United States, is written so large that all of the speeches that candidates can make in October of this year cannot wipe out that record of blind opposition to…

I ask the people of the United States, the people of Pennsylvania, the people of this district, the people of this city, to vote Democratic on November 6, 1962.

And we also have the most exciting adventure, I think, here in our own cities, and here in our own country, to make it possible for every American to live a rich and fruitful and productive and prosperous life.

Baseball is important, and I would not come to this city and question that.

Ninety-two percent of all the Republicans voted against it, and it was killed.

A strong, free world begins here in this State, begins here in the United States, and we cannot have a strong United States if we sit still.

I want to express my thanks to all of you for having been kind enough to invite, on this great day in this city, the President of the United States.

I want to express my great appreciation to all of you for your generous invitation to come here today.

Are we going to say in 1962 that Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman did their job and we're not going to do ours?

We have formed a Disarmament Agency.

This act is, therefore, an important new weapon to advance the cause of freedom.

This is the most important international piece of legislation, I think, affecting economics since the passage of the Marshall plan.

Let us pray for our Nation and for other nations of the world.

In addition, the Bureau will strengthen and update present instructions to the departments and agencies concerning the establishment of adequate machinery and methods to increase efficiency and hold down employment.