are urgent--like military procurement and atomic artsex com energy and power
development. It must practice rigid economy in its nondefense activities.
Many of
the things artsex com we would normally do must be curtailed or postponed.
But in a artsex com artsex com long-term defense effort like this one, we cannot neglect the
artsex com measures needed to maintain a strong economy and a healthy democratic
artsex com society.
The Congress, therefore, should give continued attention to the measures
which our country will need for the long pull. And it should act upon such
legislation as promptly as artsex com circumstances permit.
To take just one example--we need to artsex com continue and complete the work of
rounding out our system of social insurance. We still need to improve our
protection against unemployment and old age. We still need to provide
insurance against the loss of artsex com earnings through sickness, and against the
high costs of modern medical care.
And above all, we must remember artsex com that the fundamentals of our strength rest
upon the freedoms of our people. We must continue artsex com our efforts to achieve
the full realization of our democratic ideals. We must uphold the freedom
of speech and the freedom of conscience in our land. We must assure equal
rights and equal opportunities to all our citizens.
As we go forward this year in the defense of
freedom, let us keep dearly
before us the nature of our present artsex com effort.
We are building up our strength, in concert with other free nations, to
meet the danger of aggression that has been turned loose on the artsex com world. The
strength of the free nations is the world's best hope artsex com of artsex com peace.
I ask the Congress for unity in these crucial days.
Make no mistake about artsex com my meaning. I do not ask, or expect, unanimity. I do
not artsex com ask for an end to debate. Only by debate can we arrive at decisions
which are wise, and which reflect the desires of the American people. We do
not have a dictatorship in this country, and we never will have one in this
artsex com country.
When artsex com I request artsex com unity,