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The joke referring to the Rice–Texas football rivalry was handwritten by Kennedy into the speech text, [11] and is remembered by sports fans. [13] Although the Rice–Texas rivalry was highly competitive at the time of Kennedy's speech, with Rice holding an 18-17-1 edge over Texas from 1930 to 1966, [ 14 ] Rice has only beaten Texas in 1965 ...
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 ...
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.
Find out how dump trucks, flamethrowers and Boy Scouts saved the day — and learn about a few more surprising facts from John F. Kennedy’s swearing in.
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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.
John F. Kennedy's tenure as the 35th president of the United States began with his inauguration on January 20, 1961, and ended with his assassination on November 22, 1963. . Kennedy, a Democrat from Massachusetts, took office following his narrow victory over Republican incumbent vice president Richard Nixon in the 1960 presidential elect
Kennedy was sworn in as the 35th president at noon on January 20, 1961. In his inaugural address, he spoke of the need for all Americans to be active citizens: "Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country." He asked the nations of the world to join to fight what he called the "common enemies of man: tyranny ...