US Presidency
1963

This country has seen all of the hardship and the grief that has come to us by the loss of one country in this hemisphere, Cuba. How many other countries must be lost if the United States decides to end the programs that are helping these people, who are getting poorer every year, who have none of the resources of this great country, who look to us for help, but on the other hand in cases look to the Communists for example? That is why I think this program is important. It is a means of assisting those who want to be free, and in the final analysis it serves the United States in a very real sense.