No conference in this campaign is more important than this one. No domestic issue in this election is more important than the farm issue. No part of the American way of life is more important - or in
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I am grateful to you - Mrs. Roosevelt - for allowing me to be here today. For I come to Hyde Park not to instruct but to learn. And I think that we can all agree that Eleanor Roosevelt is a true
Today we begin debate upon the minimum wage bill known as the Fair Labor Standards Amendments of 1960. The bill has two major purposes. First, it will raise the minimum wage now received by two and
SEN. KENNEDY: Thank you, Mr. Chairman and Mr. President. I want to express my appreciation to all of you for being kind enough to come here this morning and to give me a chance to talk with you. This
Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles July 15, 1960 Governor Stevenson, Senator Johnson, Mr. Butler, Senator Symington, Senator Humphrey, Speaker Rayburn, Fellow Democrats, I want to express my thanks to
The pre-convention campaign is over. For the candidates, the hour of unity is at hand. We have all been friends for a long time. I know we always will. We have always supported our party's nominee. I
We meet on the eve of a great national convention. There our choice is more than the choice of candidates - it is the choice of party roles and responsibilities. Will we face up to the issues that
I would like to talk to you today about our farm problems. Those problems are serious. They are important. They are difficult. But they can and must be solved. Recently Vice President Nixon unveiled
AMERICA AND AFRICA These first few weeks of summer are a historic time for Africa and for the United States. Between June 20th and July 1st four new African states - containing more than ten per cent
The next Democratic Administration must offer a new liberalism for the sixties -- a liberalism which reaches beyond the era of the New and Fair Deals to the problems of a new age. The Liberal Party of
I have premised my campaign and my candidacy on a central issue the issue of the Presidency itself - its powers, their use and their decline. I have spoken about this nation's critical need for a
Calvin Coolidge was not a man of many words. Once when his wife pressed him to tell her what the minister had talked about in church, Mr. Coolidge said, "Sin." When she insisted he tell her what the
It is a long way from North Dakota - where I spoke last week - to New Jersey. But, even though the distance is great, much is the same. For here, as in the Dakotas, and in all the many states which I
It is a pleasure to join in the birthday greetings and tributes to Quentin Burdick. There is a tradition in Tibet which decrees that a child born when the Dalai Lama dies is destined to be the
Winston Churchill said: “We arm – to parley.” We prepare for war – in order to deter war. We depend on the strength of armaments – to enable us to bargain for disarmament. We compare our ability
Of particular importance to South Dakota are the farm policies of the Republican party - the party of Benson, Nixon and Mundt - the party which offers our young people no incentive to return to the
No group of Americans who should have been less surprised by our U-2 flights than the people of Colorado. For no section of this country owes more to the daring of American espionage efforts, than the
May 17, 1960, marked the end of an era - an era of illusion - the illusion that platitudes and slogans are a substitute for strength and planning - the illusion that personal goodwill is a substitute
Remarks of Senator John F. Kennedy at Jefferson-Jackson Dinner, Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 4, 1960
Emerson once said that "Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous. That is why they are conservatives after dinner." But here in Minnesota - the stronghold of progressive liberalism in the
We meet here in a period of great peril for the world. At no time since the Korean War have the voices been as angry or as menacing. The hysterical tirade of Premier Khrushchev against President
The Road to Victory We meet together on the eve of the great campaign of 1960. That campaign will decide whether the Democratic Party is at last to have a sufficient margin in the House of
I come to you today as a friend of labor. I have worked with the leaders and members of organized labor for fourteen years as a member of the House and Senate Labor Committees. My credentials are
DEFENSE Today, in Paris, the Big Four nations begin their talks at the summit. I am sure that all Americans wish the President success in his efforts to secure a relaxation of world tensions and bring
You all know what brings me here to this state: I am a candidate in your primary for President of the United States. And I would like to take this opportunity to talk with you - not about my own
It is a long way from Maryland – where I was campaigning yesterday – to Oregon. But, although the distance is great, I feel very much at home. For here, as in Maryland, the American people are aroused