WEBVTT 1 00:01:08.100 --> 00:01:29.720 During the past year I have traveled the length and breadth of the world. 2 00:01:30.000 --> 00:01:34.600 We have faced the threat in Berlin. 3 00:01:36.120 --> 00:01:40.080 We have faced the threat in Southeast Asia. 4 00:01:40.860 --> 00:01:43.880 We have faced the threat in Latin America. 5 00:01:44.700 --> 00:01:47.700 We have faced the threat in Africa. 6 00:01:48.840 --> 00:01:52.940 There have been some disappointments and frustrations. 7 00:01:53.720 --> 00:01:57.980 There have been some standoffs and some stalemates. 8 00:01:57.980 --> 00:02:02.220 There have been some successes and some gains. 9 00:02:02.960 --> 00:02:08.820 But the balance sheet of our position in the world today 10 00:02:08.820 --> 00:02:17.280 is not just the addition of successes and the subtraction of losses. 11 00:02:18.300 --> 00:02:24.960 The results can be assessed accurately only when we count in an event 12 00:02:24.960 --> 00:02:33.960 which would make 1961 a memorable year even if nothing else had happened at all. 13 00:02:37.020 --> 00:02:39.800 May I have your cooperation? 14 00:02:41.420 --> 00:02:45.280 And we have held the line. 15 00:02:45.280 --> 00:02:58.320 I also find this sense of unity in other free nations. 16 00:02:59.820 --> 00:03:03.440 During the past year I have traveled around the world. 17 00:03:04.540 --> 00:03:11.540 I have been in the great cities of Western Europe and I have to create fear and consternation. 18 00:03:12.360 --> 00:03:15.260 Those who have deliberately and consciously been in the great cities of Western Europe 19 00:03:15.260 --> 00:03:19.960 and who have deliberately rejected freedom have no understanding 20 00:03:21.260 --> 00:03:30.020 of the hearts and souls of men and women who live in a society of freedom of choice. 21 00:03:31.940 --> 00:03:36.420 They mistake our disagreements for disunity, 22 00:03:37.740 --> 00:03:40.920 our debates for dissension, 23 00:03:40.920 --> 00:03:47.420 our extremists for significant political leaders, 24 00:03:49.080 --> 00:03:54.920 and they never fail to be surprised over the capacity of free men 25 00:03:55.500 --> 00:04:02.920 to unite and close ranks when their country is in danger. 26 00:04:04.190 --> 00:04:10.950 Furthermore, they never fail to be surprised at the capacity of free men 27 00:04:10.950 --> 00:04:14.970 to find new approaches to the problems they face. 28 00:04:15.810 --> 00:04:22.630 Perhaps the real secret weapon of freedom is that our actions are determined 29 00:04:22.630 --> 00:04:33.170 by the collective wisdom of the many rather than the individual judgment of the few. 30 00:04:35.030 --> 00:04:41.470 It has been exciting this year to watch the steady stream of moves 31 00:04:41.470 --> 00:04:50.790 which have done so much to put freedom on the march and to get America to moving again. 32 00:04:50.790 --> 00:04:54.050 And let me just name a few. 33 00:04:54.910 --> 00:05:07.050 Blotted here today in this vital, vibrant, giant of a city at the foot of the Great Lakes, 34 00:05:08.530 --> 00:05:13.270 I believe that we share common thoughts and common purposes. 35 00:05:13.270 --> 00:05:25.630 We have already this year together tackled with results the domestic problems that we face as we began. 36 00:05:26.190 --> 00:05:28.430 Well, it is a lonely battle. 37 00:05:29.350 --> 00:05:31.110 But we are not alone in it. 38 00:05:32.390 --> 00:05:36.170 We have with us those who believe in freedom, 39 00:05:36.170 --> 00:05:46.230 and we can find them all around the world in the fishing villages of Kyaar in Africa 40 00:05:46.230 --> 00:05:51.390 or the dusty streets of Karachi in Pakistan. 41 00:05:52.970 --> 00:05:55.770 To some, I guess it seems a little old-fashioned, 42 00:05:56.930 --> 00:06:03.770 but the goose pimples still pop up when I hear the Star-Spangled Banner played. 43 00:06:03.770 --> 00:06:06.270 I am no super patriot. 44 00:06:07.710 --> 00:06:11.810 I try to be a patriot in a superior manner. 45 00:06:13.410 --> 00:06:17.310 Because of your votes and because of your confidence, 46 00:06:18.650 --> 00:06:25.150 a few of us are privileged to speak for you in the capitals of the world. 47 00:06:26.550 --> 00:06:31.330 I have seen the glories of art and architecture. 48 00:06:31.330 --> 00:06:40.010 I have seen the sunrise on Mount Blank as we flew across it after meeting on disarmament. 49 00:06:41.050 --> 00:06:47.890 I have felt the sun beat with 120-degree noonday heat on the Taj Mahal, 50 00:06:48.690 --> 00:06:56.690 the oasis of beauty in the middle of poverty and disease-ridden villages of India. 51 00:06:56.690 --> 00:07:06.150 But there is no thrill so great as to find the friends of your flag around the world. 52 00:07:07.490 --> 00:07:11.990 It was a great and a moving and exciting experience for me, 53 00:07:12.910 --> 00:07:19.590 a naive boy from a little town in the hills of my state, 54 00:07:19.590 --> 00:07:25.950 to ride through the streets of Asia and Africa and Europe 55 00:07:26.590 --> 00:07:33.350 and hear the crowds push forward to cheer the American flag 56 00:07:33.350 --> 00:07:38.830 as it fluttered from the front of an American car. 57 00:07:49.590 --> 00:07:51.850 Ladies and gentlemen, 58 00:07:53.070 --> 00:07:53.210 I am the President of the United States of America, 59 00:07:53.210 --> 00:07:54.410 and I am the President of the United States of America. 60 00:07:54.410 --> 00:07:54.410 61 00:07:54.410 --> 00:07:57.370 and I am the President of the United States of America. 62 00:07:57.370 --> 00:08:23.550 Ladies and gentlemen, that concludes this morning's program. Thank you. 63 00:08:32.710 --> 00:08:35.510 Thank you.