President Kennedy's speech to the American Newspaper Publishers Association in New York, 1961

Excerpt from President Kennedy's speech to the American Newspaper Publishers Association in New York, 1961

"... we are confronted all over the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies mainly on secret means of expanding its sphere of influence - infiltration instead of invasion, subversion instead of elections, intimidation instead of free choice, partisans at night instead of armies during the day. This is a system that has used huge human and material resources to create a closely cohesive, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations.

Her preparations are hidden, not published. Her mistakes are buried, not covered in the headlines. Dissenters are silenced, not praised. Not a single expense is questioned, not a single rumor is printed, not a single secret is revealed. The Cold War is being waged with a wartime discipline that no democracy can or wants to match."