On the record
Now the time has come to make the most of our gains--to translate the renewal of our national strength into the achievement of our national purpose.
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John F. Kennedy
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Kennedy calls for action to leverage national strength for achieving goals.
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Before my term has ended, we shall have to test anew whether a nation organized and governed such as ours can endure.
This Nation is the world's foremost manufacturer, farmer, banker, consumer, and exporter.
Our instrument and our hope is the United Nations--and I see little merit in the impatience of those who would abandon this imperfect world instrument because they dislike our imperfect world.
For this is the most urgent task confronting the Congress in 1963.