Editor's note: this transcript was made by starting with the text copy from the JFK Library and then, using the copy at the top of the list inside the folder of related materials -- (that states at top-left of page 1, "As actually delivered") to clarily punctuation -- it was edited to reflect the actual words President Kennedy spoke to deliver the speech (video & audio recordings provided below). "President Kennedy began to feel in the spring of 1963 that there was a possibility for some kind of new movement in our relations with the Soviet Union, and he began to look for an opportunity to make a `peace speech.' That was the way it was described, and this was a project which was kept extremely confidential in the White House. McGeorge Bundy began in a quiet way to get from two or three members of the White House staff ideas which might go into such a speech. Ted Sorensen worked on it. The President thought a great deal about it, talked with Sorensen and Bundy, made clear the point of view and the ideas he wanted. A draft presently emerged. It was shown to a small group in the White House. As I recall, the draft was not shown to the State Department or to the Defense Department until the Saturday before it was given. It was given on a Monday. You may remember the President went to Hawaii, and I think it was perhaps on Friday afternoon that