The Cold War: The Creative Task

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any joe to assure the survival and success of liberty.

—John Kennedy, at his Inaugural Last week the U.S. was certainly bearing burdens and meeting hardships in the cause of liberty's survival. The clouds of war still gathered over Berlin. In Southeast Asia, Communist Viet Cong guerrillas increased the bloody pace of their raids on the communities of South Viet Nam. In Manhattan, the U.S. worked tirelessly to preserve the United Nations, suddenly bereft...

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