John Fitzgerald Kennedy

The United States is not, quite obviously--it has not been our policy, we made it clear what our policy is, which is to build for our own security.

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

The important point is that they recognize and the Government recognizes, and every group recognizes, the necessity, as I have said, of attempting to work out economic policies which will maintain our economy at an adequate rate of growth.

I strongly urge the flight engineers to meet their public responsibilities, to reconsider their action, and to either submit this case to arbitration or agree with the carriers on some other means of settling this dispute without any…

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

This is not a matter-as it goes to basic national feelings, personal feelings.

I emphasized the importance of water resources development to the Nation, and expressed this administration's commitment to a sound and orderly program of new projects to meet accumulated needs.

The San Juan-Chama Reclamation Project will provide water supplies needed to permit continued economic growth and development and stabilize an existing agricultural economy in the Rio Grande Basin of New Mexico.

I am especially pleased to approve this bill because I regard this legislation as the forerunner of additional authorization for western water resources development now pending in the Congress.

Confidence demonstrated by so great a number of South Carolinians is a great source of satisfaction to all of those who work with you here in the Capital for South Carolina and the country.

These projects will provide major benefits to the West, and to the Nation as well as to the communities directly involved.

President Kennedy agreed in principle to instruct his representatives to work out in conjunction with the Panamanian representatives arrangements under which the U.S. Government will withhold the income taxes of those Panamanian and…

The Navajo Indian Irrigation Project will assist the Navajo people in making full use of their own resources to achieve a higher standard of living by providing employment opportunities in irrigation farming.

I share your view that the reports from Laos are very encouraging.

We must continue also to do our best to persuade all concerned in Laos to work together to this same end.

Today I have signed S. 107, a bill to authorize the Secretary of Interior to construct the San Juan-Chama Reclamation Project, and the Navajo Irrigation Project.

CONGRATULATIONS on your decisive primary victory.

These developments represent investments in the Nation's future that will provide major dividends in the years to come.

You can count on the continued and energetic efforts of the Government of the United States toward this end.

For the new decade, new tools have been forged to implement the changes in program emphasis toward economic and social progress through self-help, long-range development, and a shift from grant assistance to loans.

I also hope, as a result of coming here, that you are not in any way disillusioned by political experience, but instead will choose to come back here yourselves as members of the House and Senate.

The past decade has seen the strengthening of many of our friends and allies so that they have been enabled not only to thrive without our grant assistance, but also to bear an increasing share of the responsibility of helping the…

I know this is just the beginning of a great career which I hope will be marked by public service not only in the Congress, but also perhaps in other places.

We recognize the challenges that Panama faces as I am sure you recognize the responsibilities that the United States carries.

Fiscal year 1961 can perhaps best be characterized as a year of re-evaluation for the foreign assistance program.