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Kennedy's speech on the nation's space effort delivered at Rice Stadium on September 12, 1962. The portion of the speech quoted on the left begins at 9:03. On September 12, 1962, a warm and sunny day, President Kennedy delivered his speech before a crowd of about 40,000 people, at Rice University's Rice Stadium. Many individuals in the crowd ...
Let Us Continue is a speech that 36th President of the United States Lyndon B. Johnson delivered to a joint session of Congress on November 27, 1963, five days after the assassination of his predecessor John F. Kennedy. The almost 25-minute speech is considered one of the most important in his political career.
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 ...
University of Akron President Norman Auburn: “President John F. Kennedy demonstrated all through his lifetime the challenge he expressed in his inaugural address: ‘Ask not what your country ...
"Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country", part of the Inaugural address of John F. Kennedy. [10]"You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore", said by Richard Nixon in 1962 when he retired from politics after losing the 1962 California gubernatorial election.
The love story between John F. Kennedy and his wife, Jackie, was far from perfect and was tragically cut short in 1963 by a sniper’s bullet. ... On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy ...
And since July 4 is in a few days, let me end with a quote by John F. Kennedy: Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
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 ...