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Kennedy closed his speech by noting that January 30 was the birthday of former President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and he quoted from the conclusion to Roosevelt's 1945 State of the Union Address: In the words of a great President, whose birthday we honor today, closing his final State of the Union Message sixteen years ago, "We pray that we may ...
Ask Not is a phrase associated with John F. Kennedy's inaugural address: "And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country." Ask Not may also refer to: Ask Not, a 2008 documentary film directed by Johnny Symons about the impact of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy in the U.S. military
From the onset of his term, President John F. Kennedy was relatively silent on the issue of African-American civil rights in the United States, preferring executive action to legislative solutions. He was cautious not to distance the South, marked by substantial segregation and racial discrimination, by infringing upon states' rights. [1]
President John F. Kennedy with the Boston Celtics, January 1963 Kennedy was a fan of Major League Baseball 's Boston Red Sox and the National Basketball Association 's Boston Celtics . [ 454 ] [ 455 ] Growing up on Cape Cod, Kennedy and his siblings developed a lifelong passion for sailing . [ 456 ]
The inauguration of John F. Kennedy as the 35th president of the United States was held on Friday, January 20, 1961, at the East Portico of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. This was the 44th inauguration and marked the commencement of John F. Kennedy's and Lyndon B. Johnson's only term as president and vice president.
As President John F. Kennedy famously told his fellow Americans in his 1961 inaugural address, "Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country.”
It was Kennedy's third and final State of the Union Address. Presiding over this joint session was House speaker John W. McCormack, accompanied by Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, in his capacity as the president of the Senate. Kennedy's speech addressed various economic concerns, such as taxation policy.
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.