It is my great honor both to serve my country as the Attorney General, and to assist my older brother Jack as a senior counselor. It is my sacred duty and a wonderful privilege to serve in both of these capacities under President Kennedy's administration. I will always gratefully help shoulder whatever burdens and worries my brother asks of me. He knows that he can always count on me to give him my honest and direct opinion, and that I will always have the good of the people of this great land uppermost in my mind, just as he does.
Throughout the Cuban missile crisis, as both the military machines (and hawks) of the USA and of the Soviet Union ramped up their capacities to utterly destroy each other, and most of the rest of the planet's citizens as well, it took a leap of faith, and a kindling spark of trust, for the two leaders of these mighty countries to back down from the ledge that they were thrust upon. Reason was hoped for, and when my brother and the leader of the Soviet Union could finally secure a way to send trusted messages between themselves, sanity--and all of our futures---were summarily restored. The president looked down into the abyss, and both he and the premier found a way to through a rope across it, and from this rope I hope that we can build a permanent bridge of understanding.
God bless America, and God bless my brother, the president.
RFK
