It was fifty years ago today that John F. Kennedy gave his stirring Inaugural Address. I was three years old at the time so of course I do not remember watching it live, but I've seen it so many times I feel like I was there. The words still stir today.
Note to President Obama: the Torch has been passed to you; please do something with it!
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My favorite JFK quote was not in the inauguration, but in his 1962 speech that kicked off the lunar landing program:
"we choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard."
I don't think today's mood in America echoes JFK's tone. The GOP Tea Party is a "me first" institution and that attitude is destroying, not building up America.
Absolutely (great minds think alike). I have always been inspired by the phrase, "not because they are easy, but because they are hard". The American University "peace" speech is also a winner.
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