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Delivered Jan. 20, 1961 -- Vice President Johnson, Mr. Speaker, Mr. Chief Justice, President Eisenhower, Vice President Nixon, President Truman, reverend clergy ...
Vice President Johnson, Mr. Speaker, Mr. Chief Justice, President Eisenhower, Vice President Nixon, President Truman, Reverend Clergy, fellow citizens: We observe today not a victory of party but ...
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We want to bridge divides to reach everyone. The John F. Kennedy inaugural address was 50 years ago to the day – on Jan. 20, 1961. It remains an iconic American speech and is the subject of ...
It may have been superior. But it was not his. Kennedy believed his inaugural address should “set a tone for the era about to begin,” an era in which he imagined foreign policy and global ...
Some of us wordsmiths will take any available chance to savor a great speech, like the fiftieth anniversary of John F. Kennedy's inaugural address that's being observed Thursday. And it deserves ...
It became one of the most famous political speeches in history. But according to a new book, John F Kennedy stole what was to become the best-known quote of his 1961 inaugural address – from his ...
John F. Kennedy's inaugural address is best remembered for his "ask not" line, but just as important was his commitment that the United States "shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any ...
John F. Kennedy’s inaugural address, delivered on a cold January day in 1961, was “destined to be famed within minutes of its delivery,” TIME noted the following week. “At last came the ...
Kennedy's uplifting inaugural address, remembered by some historians as one of the best in the nation's history, challenged Americans to serve their country at a time when the Cold War simmered ...
The poetic "ask not" quotation is among the speech's most memorable lines President John F Kennedy would have been delighted to know that his inaugural address is still remembered and admired 50 ...