John F. Kennedy: “The Nassau agreement recognizes that the security of the West is indivisible, and so must be our defense.”

All of us together--this Administration, this Congress, this nation--must forge those answers.

Our Constitution wisely assigns both joint and separate roles to each branch of the government; and a President and a Congress who hold each other in mutual respect will neither permit nor attempt any trespass.

These various elements in our foreign policy lead, as I have said, to a single goal--the goal of a peaceful world of free and independent states.

But today, were I to offer--after little more than a week in office--detailed legislation to remedy every national ill, the Congress would rightly wonder whether the desire for speed had replaced the duty of responsibility.