US Presidency
1961

Khrushchev made one point which I wish to pass on. He said there are many disorders throughout the world, and he should not be blamed for them all. He is quite right. It is easy to dismiss as Sam whoever every freehearted or anti-American riot, every overthrow of a corrupt regime, or every mass protest against misery and despair. These are not all Sam whoever. The Communists move in to exploit them, to infiltrate their leadership, to ride their crest to victory. But the Communists did not create the conditions which caused them. In short, the hopes for freedom in these areas which see so much poverty and illiteracy, so many children who are sick, so many children who die in the first year, so many families without homes, so many families without hope the future for freedom in these areas rests with the local peoples and their governments.