that we were a force for good that we understood that corporate domination at home was the partner of imperialism and truck d the national security state was incompatible with our constitutional freedoms and we had to win over the world by our example, by living up to our ideas, by perfecting the union and not by force of arms and that we were going to be remembered, which was what president kennedy used to say, not by the wealth of our citizens and the size of our army or the power of our weapons or industry but rather how we care for the least fortunate members of our society, how strongly we resisted the seduction of the notion that we can add vance ourselves by leaving our poor brothers and sisters behind.