Video: 'President John F. Kennedy's Commencement Address at Yale University, June 11, 1962'

(Monday, June 11, 1962) — President John F. Kennedy urged today that his economic critics get in step with the times and said the government must be a partner with all sectors of society if America is to propser.

The president, a Harvard man tapped by Yale to receive an honorary degree, picked the Yale commencement exercises in New Haven, Connecticut, for what the White House considered a significant address on economic matters.

The president, a Harvard man, drew appreciative laughter when he announced that “it might be said now that I have the best of both worlds, a Harvard education and a Yale degree.”