Source: The Pentagon Papers, Gravel Edition, Volume 2, p. 798
Senator John F. Kennedy's statement in Congressional Record, June 14, 1960, p. 11631:
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"We must regain the ability to intervene effectively and swiftly in any
limited war anywhere in the world-augmenting, modernizing and providing increased
mobility and versatility for the conventional forces and weapons of the Army
and Marine Corps. As long as those forces lack the necessary airlift and sealift
capacity and versatility of firepower, we cannot protect our commitments around
the globe-resist non-nuclear aggressions-or be certain of having enough time
to decide on the use of our nuclear power."