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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 ...
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 ...
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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 old headmaster. He enraged his former classmates by ...
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 ...
Kennedy in the news media this week, there's no need for us to post yet another. Let's go in a different direction. We're embedding video of his Jan. 20, 1961, inaugural address. We'll also attach ...
Theodore Roosevelt, 1905 Inaugural Address “And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country.” — John F. Kennedy, 1961 ...
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 ...
It was Franklin Delano Roosevelt who said in his 1932 inaugural speech, "The greatest thing we have to fear is fear itself." In 1961, John F. Kennedy famously said "Ask not what your country can ...