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The speech was crafted by Kennedy and his speech writer Ted Sorensen. Kennedy had Sorensen study President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address as well as other inaugural speeches. [39] [40] Kennedy began collecting thoughts and ideas for his inauguration speech in late November 1960. He took suggestions from various friends, aides and ...
This allowed Kennedy to reference back to his inaugural address, [16] when he declared to the world "Together let us explore the stars". When he met with Nikita Khrushchev , General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and Premier of the Soviet Union in June 1961, Kennedy proposed making the Moon landing a joint project, but ...
Description: A video of John F. Kennedy's inauguration address after being sworn in as the thirty-fifth president of the United States . Audio has been subject to noise reduction after being downloaded from the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library website.
Trump has reportedly said he plans to lean on the speaking styles of both President Kennedy and President Reagan for inspiration on his own inaugural address. Whether the president-elect speech is ...
Kennedy won the 1957 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. Sorensen helped draft Kennedy's inaugural address and Lyndon Johnson's Let Us Continue speech following Kennedy's assassination, and was the primary author of Kennedy's 1962 "We choose to go to the Moon" speech.
F Kennedy. This speech is widely quoted in American history (see Inaugural address of John F. Kennedy#Notable passages), including one of the most well known quotes "And so my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country." I feel that it meets all of criteria.
March 1 – Emphasizing the theme of public service in his inaugural address, President Kennedy issues Executive Order 10924, establishing the Peace Corps on a "temporary pilot basis". Kennedy also sends to Congress a message requesting authorization of the Peace Corps as a permanent organization.
Frost's appearance at the Kennedy inaugural was a kind of valedictory — he was 86 and died two years later. Gorman's career is just beginning. Her first two books come out later this year ...