JFK1962

JFK1962

@JFK1962

Follow President John F. Kennedy's thousand days in office -- 50 years later. A project of the JFK Library ().

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NYTIMES: Attorney General Kennedy reiterated Federal Government would do "whatever is necessary" to carry out desegregation orders.

NYTIMES: U.S. agrees to sell defensive Hawk missiles to Israel to offset offensive weapons furnished by Communist bloc to Arab neighbors

Sends message of “sincere congratulations” to Prime Minister Muhirwa on the forthcoming celebration of the Independence of Burundi

I am confident that this act will help us sustain prosperity, reduce burdens of surpluses, and maintain stable food prices.

It is the people themselves who must [make progress], but it is the government that can help provide an atmosphere to make it possible

I do not agree. This has never been the view of the Democratic Party.

For not everyone, even in America, welcomes change…there have always been people who wanted to go back to some golden age which never was

To do something about it - that has been always the faith of the Democratic Party, and it is the issue in the 1962 election.

Even in America people have had to live lives of hardship and want...an affirmative and progressive Government could do something about it.

Addresses a Democratic Party political rally in Wheeling Stadium, West Virginia

Welcomes members of the new National Advisory Committee on Manpower Development and Training

Sends message to Pope Jon XXIII on the opening of second Vatican Council to “advance the cause of international peace and understanding”

Abuse of these drugs is increasing problems of abnormal and antisocial behavior, highway accidents, juvenile delinquency, and broken homes.

This national problem merits national concern… an orderly, vigorous, and direct attack [must] be undertaken at all levels

[Drug abuse] is tragic, upsetting…a great loss to our society in the form of human suffering and misery and lost productivity

Address at the White House Conference on Narcotic and Drug Abuse, State Department Auditorium

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