John F. Kennedy: “Today the United Nations is primarily the protector of the small and the weak, and a safety valve for the strong.”

We need a new law--a wholly new approach--a bold new instrument of American trade policy.

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

For this is the most urgent task confronting the Congress in 1963.

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.