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friend at the banquet, who at once procured a stomach pump and subjected the Congressman to
emergency treatment."
[Source: http://www.gold-eagle.com/editorials_02/lancaster102102.html]

Thirty years later another popular leader stood in opposition to the money powers. This man was
President John F. Kennedy.

On April 27, 1961 President Kennedy gave a speech to the American Newspaper Publishers
Association at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City. The quotations in the image above are
taken from that speech. I will repeat them here with additional content for those who have difficulty
viewing the image.

The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently
and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings...

Our way of life is under attack. Those who make themselves our enemy are advancing around the
globe. The survival of our friends is in danger. And yet no war has been declared, no borders have
been crossed by marching troops, no missiles have been fired.

If the press is awaiting a declaration of war before it imposes the self-discipline of combat
conditions, then I can only say that no war ever posed a greater threat to our security. If you are
awaiting a finding of "clear and present danger," then I can only say that the danger has never been
more clear and its presence has never been more imminent.

It requires a change in outlook, a change in tactics, a change in missions - by the government, by
the people, by every businessman or labor leader, and by every newspaper. For we are opposed
around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for
expanding its sphere of influence - on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of
elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It
is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly
knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific
and political operations.

Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters
are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed.
It conducts the Cold War, in short, with a war-time discipline no democracy would ever hope or