A New Year's Message from the President-Elect:
What America Faces in '61
Can a nation organized and governed like ours endure? That is the real question.
Have we the nerve and the will? Can we carry through in an age where we will
witness not only the new break-throughs in weapons of destruction but also a race
for mastery of the sky and the rain, the ocean and the tides, the far side of space and the inside
of men's minds? We and the Russians now have the power to destroy with one blow one
quarter of the earth's population a feat not accomplished since Cain slew Abel.
Can we meet this test of survival and still maintain our tradition of individual liberties and
dissent? I think we can. It is the enduring faith of the American tradition that there is no real
conflict between freedom and security between liberty and abundance. Through centuries
of crisis, the American tradition has demonstrated, on the contrary, that freedom is the ally
of security and that liberty is the architect of abundance.
For what we need now in this nation, more than atomic power, or air power, or financial,
industrial, or even manpower, is brain power.
What we need most of all is a constant flow of new ideas a government and a nation and
a press and a public opinion which respect new ideas and respect the people who have them.
Our country has surmounted great crises in the past, not because of
our wealth, not because of our rhetoric, not because we had longer
cars and whiter iceboxes and bigger television screens than anyone
else, but because our ideas were more compelling and more penetrat
ing and wiser and more enduring. And perhaps more important, we
encouraged all ideas the unorthodox as well as the conventional,
the radical as well as the traditional.
In the words of Woodrow Wilson: "We must neither run with
the crowd nor deride it but seek sober
counsel for it - and for ourselves." - JOHN F. KENNEDY
FROM THE BOOK "THE STRATEGY OF PEACE." COPYRIGHT 1960 BY JOHN F. KENNEDY. REPRINTED BY PERMISSION OF HARPER & BROTHERS.
COVER:
The newcomer on our cover may not know
it, but photographer Doris Pinney sees her
as the symbol oj a bright new year. Ij she
could talk, she would surely join us in
wishing nil our readers a very happy 1961.
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