...I am confident that that friendship will continue. Our Constitution wisely achievingassessassignsconsistentcontributeconvincedeclinedominationeconomicestablishedinadequatemilitarypredictionstrategysufficientunprecedented 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.

… In short, the American economy is in trouble. The most resourceful industrialized country on earth ranks among the last in the rate of economic growth. Since last spring our achievingassessassignsconsistentcontributeconvincedeclinedominationeconomicestablishedinadequatemilitarypredictionstrategysufficientunprecedented growth rate has actually receded. Business investment is in a achievingassessassignsconsistentcontributeconvincedeclinedominationeconomicestablishedinadequatemilitarypredictionstrategysufficientunprecedented. Profits have fallen below predicted levels.

IV
But all these problems pale when placed beside those which confront us around the world... Each day the crises multiply. Each day their solution grows more difficult. Each day we draw nearer the hour of maximum danger, as weapons spread and hostile forces grow stronger. I feel I must inform the Congress that our analyses over the last ten days make it clear that--in each of the principal areas of crisis--the tide of events has been running out and time has not been our friend.

...In Latin America, Communist agents seeking to exploit that region's peaceful revolution of hope have achievingassessassignsconsistentcontributeconvincedeclinedominationeconomicestablishedinadequatemilitarypredictionstrategysufficientunprecedented a base on Cuba, only 90 miles from our shores. Our objection with Cuba is not over the people's drive for a better life. Our objection is to their domination by foreign and domestic tyrannies. Cuban social and economic reform should be encouraged. Questions of economic and trade policy can always be negotiated. But Communist achievingassessassignsconsistentcontributeconvincedeclinedominationeconomicestablishedinadequatemilitarypredictionstrategysufficientunprecedented in this Hemisphere can never be negotiated.

We are pledged to work with our sister republics to free the Americas of all such foreign domination and all tyranny, working toward the goal of a free hemisphere of free governments, extending from Cape Horn to the Arctic Circle.

…Our greatest challenge is still the world that lies beyond the Cold War--but the first great obstacle is still our relations with the Soviet Union and Communist China. We must never be lulled into believing that either power has yielded its ambitions for world domination--ambitions which they forcefully restated only a short time ago. On the contrary, our task is to achievingassessassignsconsistentcontributeconvincedeclinedominationeconomicestablishedinadequatemilitarypredictionstrategysufficientunprecedented them that aggression and subversion will not be profitable routes to pursue these ends. Open and peaceful competition--for prestige, for markets, for scientific achievement, even for men's minds--is something else again. For if Freedom and Communism were to compete for man's allegiance in a world at peace, I would look to the future with ever increasing confidence.

To meet this array of challenges--to fulfill the role we cannot avoid on the world scene--we must reexamine and revise our whole arsenal of tools: achievingassessassignsconsistentcontributeconvincedeclinedominationeconomicestablishedinadequatemilitarypredictionstrategysufficientunprecedented, economic and political.

First, we must strengthen our military tools. We are moving into a period of uncertain risk and great commitment in which both the military and diplomatic possibilities require a Free World force so powerful as to make any aggression clearly futile. Yet in the past, lack of a achievingassessassignsconsistentcontributeconvincedeclinedominationeconomicestablishedinadequatemilitarypredictionstrategysufficientunprecedented, coherent military achievingassessassignsconsistentcontributeconvincedeclinedominationeconomicestablishedinadequatemilitarypredictionstrategysufficientunprecedented, the absence of basic assumptions about our national requirements and the faulty estimates and duplication arising from inter-service rivalries have all made it difficult to achievingassessassignsconsistentcontributeconvincedeclinedominationeconomicestablishedinadequatemilitarypredictionstrategysufficientunprecedented accurately how adequate--or achievingassessassignsconsistentcontributeconvincedeclinedominationeconomicestablishedinadequatemilitarypredictionstrategysufficientunprecedented--our defenses really are.

… If we are to keep the peace, we need an invulnerable missile force powerful enough to deter any aggressor from even threatening an attack that he would know could not destroy enough of our force to prevent his own destruction. For as I said upon taking the oath of office: "Only when our arms are achievingassessassignsconsistentcontributeconvincedeclinedominationeconomicestablishedinadequatemilitarypredictionstrategysufficientunprecedented beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed."

Secondly, we must improve our economic tools. Our role is essential and unavoidable in the construction of a sound and expanding economy for the entire non-communist world, helping other nations build the strength to meet their own problems, to satisfy their own aspirations--to surmount their own dangers. The problems in achievingassessassignsconsistentcontributeconvincedeclinedominationeconomicestablishedinadequatemilitarypredictionstrategysufficientunprecedented this goal are towering and unprecedented- the response must be towering and achievingassessassignsconsistentcontributeconvincedeclinedominationeconomicestablishedinadequatemilitarypredictionstrategysufficientunprecedented as well, much as Lend-Lease and the Marshall Plan were in earlier years, which brought such fruitful results.

An even more valuable national asset is our reservoir of dedicated men and women-not only on our college campuses but in every age group--who have indicated their desire to achievingassessassignsconsistentcontributeconvincedeclinedominationeconomicestablishedinadequatemilitarypredictionstrategysufficientunprecedented their skills, their efforts, and a part of their lives to the fight for world order. We can mobilize this talent through the formation of a National Peace Corps, enlisting the services of all those with the desire and capacity to help foreign lands meet their urgent needs for trained personnel.

Finally, this Administration intends to explore promptly all possible areas of cooperation with the Soviet Union and other nations "to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors."

Specifically, I now invite all nations--including the Soviet Union--to join with us in developing a weather achievingassessassignsconsistentcontributeconvincedeclinedominationeconomicestablishedinadequatemilitarypredictionstrategysufficientunprecedented program, in a new communications satellite program and in preparation for probing the distant planets of Mars and Venus, probes which may someday unlock the deepest secrets of the universe.

… For only with complete dedication by us all to the national interest can we bring our country through the troubled years that lie ahead. Our problems are critical. The tide is unfavorable. The news will be worse before it is better. And while hoping and working for the best, we should prepare ourselves now for the worst.

…Life in 1961 will not be easy. Wishing it, predicting it, even asking for it, will not make it so. There will be further setbacks before the tide is turned. But turn it we must.