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Address at Rice University on the Nation's Space Effort, commonly known by the sentence in the middle of the speech "We choose to go to the Moon", was a speech on September 12, 1962, by John F. Kennedy, the President of the United States.
It was Kennedy's second State of the Union Address. Presiding over this joint session was newly elected House speaker John W. McCormack, accompanied by Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, in his capacity as the president of the Senate. Kennedy began his speech with a tribute to former House Speaker Sam Rayburn who had recently died in office:
The 1963 State of the Union Address was given by John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, on Monday, January 14, 1963, to the 88th United States Congress in the chamber of the United States House of Representatives. [3] It was Kennedy's third and final State of the Union Address.
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
He wrote many of Kennedy's articles and speeches. [5] In his 2008 autobiography Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History, Sorensen said he wrote "a first draft of most of the chapters" of John F. Kennedy's 1956 book Profiles in Courage and "helped choose the words of many of its sentences." [6] [7]
On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was seated beside his smartly dressed wife, who was wearing a pink Chanel-like suit and matching pillbox hat and holding an armful of red roses that ...
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. [452] [453] Growing up on Cape Cod, Kennedy and his siblings developed a lifelong passion for sailing. [454]
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