All of you go to a continent about which we know very little.

This is only one phase of the whole challenge which is very serious.

I was just looking over--and I apologize to you for keeping you waiting--we were just looking over the areas that you are going to and the functions that you are going to perform.

I want to express my thanks to the Vice President, who has been particularly active as the chairman of this.

Most of them come from countries where there is almost no higher education except in a few exceptional cases.

I am constantly impressed by the great convulsion which a fight for revolution brings, the extraordinary talent it brings to the surface.

We recognize they are dependent upon the finest shifts in international trade whether there is going to be prosperity or not.

They are faced with, in a sense, the far more pedestrian but more difficult challenge after the fight for independence has been won, which carries its own built-in enthusiasm.

The problems they face today in every case, they have told me, were far more difficult than the problems they faced in the fight for independence.

So that is why you are particularly welcome here today.

We have to go out and make it happen.

I have made the determination regarding the ad valorem equivalent of the specific rate of duty (or combination of rates including a specific rate), and regarding the representative period, under the authority of section 350(a) (3) (D).

I have determined that in each case the modified rate will simplify the computation of the amount of duty imposed with respect to the articles concerned.

President Kennedy pointed out that under the Trade Expansion legislation now pending before the Congress the United States Government might be able, through reciprocal agreements, to bring about a general reduction of trade barriers for…

by virtue of the authority vested in me by Section 10 of the Railway Labor Act, as amended (45 U.S.C. 160), I hereby create a board of three members, to be appointed by me, to investigate these disputes.

President Kennedy expressed his strong belief in the importance of the Commonwealth as a source of stability and strength for the free World.

Now, Therefore, I, John F. Kennedy, under the authority vested in me, as President, by the Constitution and statutes, in particular section 350 (a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, having found that it is required or appropriate to…

In my opinion these unresolved labor disputes have resulted in a strike affecting a substantial part of the tactical fighter production industry, which is part of the aircraft industry of the United States, and which is engaged in trade…

Therefore, in order to remove a peril to the national safety and to secure a resumption of trade, commerce, and transportation among the several states, I direct you, pursuant to the Provisions of Section 208 of the Labor Management…

You may be assured that should you undertake this project, you will have the full cooperation of the Administration.

But it is not going to.

I don't believe that anyone who looks at our problems at home and abroad could possibly take that partisan an attitude.

And I'm confident that if there is good will on both sides, that there can be a lessening of tensions.

I hope that this will not be made, as it's indicated, a party issue on which every Republican will then vote against us and we will find ourselves with a very close vote on a matter which has the first chance of bringing some order out of…

I think we should constantly review, and I think as he suggested, we should make judgments between what is essential to our interest and what is marginal.