US Presidency
1962

How, in sum, can we make our free economy work at full capacity, that is, provide adequate profits for enterprise, adequate wages for labor, adequate utilization of plant, and opportunity for all? These are the problems that we should be talking about, that the political parties and the various groups in our country should be discussing. They can not be solved by incantations from the forgotten past. But the example of Western Europe shows that they are capable of solution, that governments, and many of them are conservative governments, prepared to face technical problems without ideological preconceptions, can coordinate the elements of a national economy and bring about growth and prosperity, a decade of it. Some conversations I have heard in our own country sound like old records, long playing, left over from the middle thirties. The debate of the thirties had its great significance and produced great results, but it took place in a different world with different needs and different tasks.