Anonymous ID: 3aa290 July 25, 2021, 11:17 a.m. No.14196988   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>6994

 

According to the transcript on the JFK Library's website, the missing chunk at 3:03 was:

 

"For the value of this body's work is not dependent on the existence of emergencies–nor can the winning of peace consist only of dramatic victories. Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures. And however undramatic the pursuit of peace, that pursuit must go on.

 

Today we may have reached a pause in the cold warbut that is not a lasting peace. A test ban treaty is a milestonebut it is not the millennium. We have not been released from our obligationswe have been given an opportunity. And if we fail to make the most of this moment and this momentumif we convert our new-found hopes and understandings into new walls and weapons of hostilityif this pause in the cold war merely leads to its renewal and not to its endthen the indictment of posterity will rightly point its finger at us all. But if we can stretch this pause into a period of cooperationif both sides can now gain new confidence and experience in concrete collaborations for peaceif we can now be as bold and farsighted in the control of deadly weapons as we have been in their creation–then surely this first small step can be the start of a long and fruitful journey.

 

The task of building the peace lies with the leaders of every nation, large and small. For the great powers have no monopoly on conflict or ambition. The cold war is not the only expression of tension in this worldand the nuclear race is not the only arms race. Even little wars are dangerous in a nuclear world. The long labor of peace is an undertaking for every nationand in this effort none of us can remain unaligned. To this goal none can be uncommitted."