I thank the Congress for its leadership at such an important time. Whether we bring our enemies to justice, or bring justice to our enemies, justice will be done. Our grief has turned to anger, and anger to resolution. Tonight we are a country awakened to danger and called to defend freedom.

My fellow citizens, for the last nine days, the entire world has seen for itself the state of our Union - and it is strong. We have seen the decency of a loving and giving people who have made the grief of strangers their own. We have seen the unfurling of flags, the lighting of candles, the giving of blood, the saying of prayers - in English, Hebrew, and Arabic.

We have seen the state of our Union in the endurance of rescuers, working past exhaustion. And would you please help me to welcome his wife, Lisa Beamer, here tonight. We have seen it in the courage of passengers, who rushed terrorists to save others on the ground - passengers like an exceptional man named Todd Beamer. It has already been delivered by the American people. In the normal course of events, Presidents come to this chamber to report on the state of the Union. President Pro Tempore, members of Congress, and fellow Americans: In his speech the President famously states, “Our goal is not the victory of might, but the vindication of right- not peace at the expense of freedom, but both peace and freedom, here in this Hemisphere, and, we hope, around the world.THE PRESIDENT: Mr. The President characterizes the transformation of Cuba into an important strategic base as an explicit threat to American security, and explains seven components to his proposed course of action: quarantine all offensive military equipment under shipment to Cuba, increase the degree of surveillance, regard a possible attack launched from Cuba as a Soviet attack, reinforce the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, call for a meeting of the Organ of Consultation, call for an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council, and demand that Premier Nikita Khrushchev cease his current course of action. In his speech President Kennedy reports the establishment of offensive missile sites presumably intended to launch a nuclear offensive against Western nations. Kennedy’s radio and television address to the nation regarding the former Soviet Union’s military presence in Cuba. Title: Radio and television address to the American people on the Soviet arms build-up in Cuba, 22 October 1962ĭescription: Audio recording of President John F.

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