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...Ever since May 1961, when he aggravated his old back ailment while lifting a spadeful of soil at a tree-planting ceremony in Canada, John F. Kennedy has stayed off the golf course. So it came as a surprise when, early this month, newsmen spotted the President swinging vigorously away on the course at Hyannis Port...
Administration spokesmen can muster plenty of precedent: the interstate commerce clause has long been used to justify all manner of regulatory legislation. In testimony last week, Attorney General Kennedy cited 38 congressional acts sprung from the fertile soil of the clause...
...said in Bonn, "but in a larger sense the United States is here on this continent to stay so long as our presence is desired and required; our forces and commitments will remain, for your safety is our safety. Your liberty is our liberty; and any attack on your soil is an attack upon our own." In Frankfurt's historic Paulskirche (St. Paul's Church), he expanded on the theme: "The first task of the Atlantic Community was to assure its common defense. That defense was and still is indivisible. The U.S. will risk its cities to defend...
...village by persuading the peasants to pool their oxen in a farm cooperative. To Knoll, the experience has been inspiring. "After I leave the corps, I want to do more with direct contact between people and the U.S. We've got to get down into the soil with these people. White shirts and cocktail parties aren't going to swerve them away from Communism...
...from planting a terrorist German regime in France as he did in Holland, by dragging his feet in dispatching conscript French workers to Germany, by getting prisoners of war repatriated, by fighting to protect French Jews. "You don't save France," he reproached the Gaullists, "by quitting her soil...