John F. Kennedy: “These programs help people; and, by helping people, they help freedom.”

The product of our abundance must be used more effectively to relieve hunger and help economic growth in all corners of the globe.

A year ago, in assuming the tasks of the Presidency, I said that few generations, in all history, had been granted the role of being the great defender of freedom in its hour of maximum danger.

And, while the occasion does not call for another recital of our blessings and assets, we do have no greater asset than the willingness of a free and determined people, through its elected officials, to face all problems frankly and meet…

But as an institution, it should have in the future, as it has had in the past since its inception, no stronger or more faithful member than the United States of America.