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Gordon Brown keynote speech at Kennedy Library; - And his influence for good is so powerful that as Pericles said in ancient times even when he has left this world his influence abides everywhere, woven into the stuff of other men's lives. Although it is perhaps risky for a British Prime Minister to come to speak in Boston shortly before Patriots Day, I am pleased that over the past half century the special relationship between Britain and America which John Kennedy prized so much, remains strong and enduring, so firmly rooted in our common history, our shared values and in the hearts and minds of our people that no power on earth can drive us apart/ Makes joke about not giving a long speech / Nothing in President Kennedy's enduring legacy has greater importance now than his words on your Independence Day in 1962 when he proposed a new and global declaration of interdependence. He said 'Today Americans must learn to think inter-continentally, acting alone by ourselves cannot establish justice throughout the world. But joined with other free nations we can do all this and more'. So if the 1776 Declaration of Independence stated a self evident truth - that we are all created equal - JFK's Declaration of Interdependence in 1962 added another self-evident truth: that we are all of us - all of us throughout the world - in this together. Each of us our brother's and sister's keeper, each of us - to quote Martin Luther King - part of an inescapable web of mutuality. Yet no-one in 1962 could have foreseen the sheer scale of the global challenges that our growing interdependence brings: their scale, their diversity and the speed with which they have emerged: the globalization of the economy; the threat of climate change; the long struggle against international terrorism; the need to prevent millions from violence and conflict and to face up to the international consequences of poverty and inequality.