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Kennedy verbally condensed human history to fifty years, in which "only last week did we develop penicillin and television and nuclear power, and now if America's new spacecraft succeeds in reaching Venus , we will have literally reached the stars before midnight tonight. "[18] [12] With this extended metaphor, Kennedy sought to imbue a sense ...
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. The last thing JFK said to Jackie before he died Skip ...
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 . [ 454 ] [ 455 ] Growing up on Cape Cod, Kennedy and his siblings developed a lifelong passion for sailing . [ 456 ]
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:
John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis were one of America's most beloved and widely recognized couples — but their marriage wasn't without scandal — even before they wed.
He made allusion to Kennedy's book Profiles in Courage as indicative of the courageous political leader that Kennedy exemplified. A major theme was that a "new order of the ages" had been created. France, Spain, and Holland had engaged in a rivalry for control of the New World that Christopher Columbus had discovered.
This quote by John F. Kennedy is a great example: “As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.”
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 ...