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On the wall at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston, Massachusetts
HappyMe
(20,277 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)irisblue
(32,968 posts)liberal N proud
(60,334 posts)Ninga
(8,275 posts)DonViejo
(60,536 posts)bullwinkle428
(20,629 posts)Autumn
(45,057 posts)That was his Presidency. So true and prophetic.
DinahMoeHum
(21,784 posts)CherokeeDem
(3,709 posts)BelgianMadCow
(5,379 posts)annabanana
(52,791 posts)yesphan
(1,587 posts)warrior1
(12,325 posts)Fla Dem
(23,652 posts)I weep for what could have been.
flamingdem
(39,313 posts)AmBlue
(3,110 posts)I will never forget this man, this President...
seveneyes
(4,631 posts)sarge43
(28,941 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,588 posts)deminks
(11,014 posts)Blue Owl
(50,349 posts)Lifelong Protester
(8,421 posts)classof56
(5,376 posts)AndyA
(16,993 posts)blackspade
(10,056 posts)Either way that is an amazing statement.
WilliamPitt
(58,179 posts)if I had to bet. I'm sure there's a way to find out.
pkdu
(3,977 posts)Drafting[edit]
President John F. Kennedy
The speech was crafted by Kennedy and his speech writer Ted Sorenson. Kennedy had Sorenson study President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address as well as other inaugural speeches.[9] Kennedy began collecting thoughts and ideas for his inauguration speech in late November 1960. He took suggestions from various friends, aides and counselors, including suggestions from clergymen for biblical quotations. Kennedy then made several drafts using his own thoughts and some of those suggestions.[10] Kennedy included in his speech several suggestions made by Harvard economist John Kenneth Galbraith and by the former Democratic presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson II. Kennedy's line "Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate." is nearly identical to Galbraith's suggestion "We shall never negotiate out of fear. But we shall never fear to negotiate." Stevenson's suggestion "if the free way of life doesnt help the many poor of this world it will never save the few rich." was the basis for Kennedy's line "If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich."[11]
Glorfindel
(9,726 posts)roguevalley
(40,656 posts)saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)roguevalley, sorry for being off topic, SOS reminds me of ABBA. The other reminder, a call for help in a state of emergency. President Obama has only 3 years left in office to heed our call. After that he joins the emeritus group of historically forgettable moderates.
Just in case "SOS" and ABBA are not part of your generation.
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roguevalley
(40,656 posts)I remember the day this happened like my mom remembered pearl harbor. i felt the world shift. hope died with JFK and it hasn't come back. all good wishes to you, saidsimplesimon. Hugs.
Lugnut
(9,791 posts)City Lights
(25,171 posts)nolabear
(41,959 posts)MissDeeds
(7,499 posts)kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)Change has come
(2,372 posts)prairierose
(2,145 posts)calimary
(81,220 posts)mountain grammy
(26,619 posts)50 years... "let us begin."
spanone
(135,826 posts)msanthrope
(37,549 posts)2naSalit
(86,559 posts)chknltl
(10,558 posts)jwirr
(39,215 posts)A-Long-Little-Doggie
(1,011 posts)PowerToThePeople
(9,610 posts)BeatleBoot
(7,111 posts)snappyturtle
(14,656 posts)bluesbassman
(19,370 posts)Blus4u
(608 posts)And this is certainly one of them.
In spite of the frustration espoused by many here at the lack of progress, we should heed these words to inspire us to continue to fight relentlessly for the ideals in which we believe so strongly.
Peace
JNelson6563
(28,151 posts)lastlib
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for great President, and an all-too brief Presidency.
fredamae
(4,458 posts)God, I miss him.
Oldtimeralso
(1,937 posts)Agschmid
(28,749 posts)Paper Roses
(7,473 posts)cry baby
(6,682 posts)billh58
(6,635 posts)Ryano42
(1,577 posts)TBF
(32,047 posts)for this beautiful portrait of them. They are gracing my desktop screen today.
herding cats
(19,564 posts)On days like today, when many in the country are reminiscing over the tragic and premature end to this great mans life, I can almost feel the passion behind him driving us on again.
He also said on that historic day, "Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us." Which often resonates with me on more levels than just political ones.
TexasTowelie
(112,128 posts)herding cats
(19,564 posts)That's very kind of you.
dchill
(38,472 posts)mcp37
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KatyaR
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(14,013 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)me b zola
(19,053 posts)TexasTowelie
(112,128 posts)Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)jsaro
(1,454 posts)ReRe
(10,597 posts)IronLionZion
(45,430 posts)maryellen99
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(3,424 posts)Ferretherder
(1,446 posts)tblue
(16,350 posts)GoneOffShore
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Hekate
(90,645 posts)... all the way down to the inauguration in 2009.... Nothing happens overnight....
I'm sorry JFK didn't have more time. He seemed to be just hitting his stride, but he still would have gone gray in office, the Dixiecrats would still have given him hell...
JFK might have been great, instead of just promising. I was 16 when he died, Will. I remember, and it has colored my outlook all my life (circle back to subject line)....