General Debate speaker

John F. Kennedy

Addressed the General Debate 2 times for United States, between 1961 and 1963 — 8,207 words in all. The longest was 1961, at 4,612.

Office

President

Statements

United Nations records do not consistently identify a speaker’s office before 1994, so a blank means the record does not say.

What the statements mention most

disarmament 21 outer space 9 colonialism 6 nuclear weapons 6 self determination 5 cold war 5 human rights 4 peacekeeping 3

Counts of words from a published list across these 2 statements. A count is a fact about a word: it is not a measure of what this person believed, argued for, or cared about, and nothing on this page should be read that way.

Everything here is drawn from what John F. Kennedy said in an official capacity at the rostrum of the General Assembly, as published by the United Nations. Nothing else about them is collected or inferred.