Autumn 2020 Catalogue

38 American Heroes & Leaders Autumn 2020 “We Will Help Them If They Will Help Us. This, I Have Long Believed, Should Be The Motivating Force Behind Our Entire Foreign Policy” 37. KENNEDY, John F. Autograph and typed manuscript campaign speech. No place, 1952. Quarto (8-1/2 by 11 inches), nine leaves of wove paper; pp. 11. $16,500. Click for more info Autograph and typed manuscript speech, annotated by Kennedy and with over a page in his handwriting, delivered during the 1952 Massachusetts Senate campaign that ultimately unseated Henry Cabot Lodge, answering charges by Lodge that he did not take the Korean War seriously enough, in which he mentions his own personal experience in World War II and the possibility of provoking World War III and atomic warfare. Kennedy’s campaign speech focuses on charges by his opponent Henry Cabot Lodge that he was not taking the Korean War seriously. It reads in part: “War, with all its sorrows and miseries, has a deep personal meaning for me. I saw it at close range in the waters of the South Pacific during the early days of World War II… I know as one who lived it—the lonesomeness, the heartbreak, and the bitter cost of war in lives taken and bodies broken. Great sorrowwas visited uponmy own family… I don’t need to be told about it byMr. Lodge… I have been to Korea but I have never seen any record that Mr. Lodge was ever there.” The following is in Kennedy’s hand, in pencil: “I think we have every right to expect that the other members of the United Nations should bear their proportionate share of the burden of the fighting. The only way this can be done is by insisting that all of the assistance that we give them should be on a reciprocal basis—that we will help them if they will help us. This, I have long believed, should be the motivating force behind our entire foreign policy.” Three leaves with unobtrusive remnants of archival tape along upper edge. Minor wear with some small tears to one page. Very good condition. Scarce and desirable, an important draft of a speech from a key campaign early in Kennedy’s career.