Assuming the accession of the United Kingdom, there will arise across the Atlantic a trading partner behind a single external tariff similar to ours with an economy which nearly equals our own.
Kennedy discusses the implications of the UK's potential accession to the European Common Market.
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For my part, I shall withhold from neither the Congress nor the people any fact or report, past, present, or future, which is necessary for an informed judgment of our conduct and hazards.
Our decision could well affect the unity of the West, the course of the Cold War, and the economic growth of our Nation for a generation to come.
I speak today in an hour of national peril and national opportunity.
For this is the most urgent task confronting the Congress in 1963.