“I realize that there are among us those who are weary of sustaining this continual effort to help other nations. But I would ask them to look at a map and recognize that many of those whom we help live on the ‘front lines’ of the long twilight struggle for freedom—that others are new nations posed between order and chaos—and the rest are older nations now undergoing a turbulent transition of new expectations. Our efforts to help them help themselves, to demonstrate and to strengthen the vitality of free institutions, are small in cost compared to our military outlays for the defense of freedom.”
—John F. Kennedy, Special Message to the Congress on Foreign Aid, March 13, 1962
Inside this Issue
democracy human rights & governance
Democracy, Human Rights & Governance
January/February 2012
President Kennedy addresses a group of USAID Mission Directors and Deputy Mission Directors in the White House Rose Garden in Washington, DC, June 8, 1962.
Robert Knudsen, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston
Ann Doyle, Deputy Assistant Administrator for Public Affairs
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M – Lauren Gabler
ME – Hope Bryer, Jan Cartwright
SEC – Dwayne Moore, Lorraine Meehan
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