'There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts. Senate Files, Box 895, 'Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 14 June 1956.' John F. 'If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live.' - Speech at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 14 June 1956. 'I have said that control of arms is a mission that we undertake particularly for our children and our grandchildren and that they have no lobby in Washington.' -'Statement by the President to American Women Concerning their Role in Securing World Peace (449),' November 1, 1963, Public Papers of the Presidents: John F. And if that journey is a thousand miles, or even more, let history record that we, in this land, at this time, took the first step.' -'Radio and Television Address to the American People on the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (316),' July 26, 1963, Public Papers of the Presidents: John F.

Let us.step back from the shadow of war and seek out the way of peace. 'My fellow Americans, let us take that first step. 'With all of the history of war, and the human race's history unfortunately has been a good deal more war than peace, with nuclear weapons distributed all through the world, and available, and the strong reluctance of any people to accept defeat, I see the possibility in the 1970's of the President of the United States having to face a world in which 15 or 20 or 25 nations may have these weapons.' -'The President's News Conference of Ma(107),' Public Papers of the Presidents: John F.

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