The Letters of John F. Kennedy

May 25, 1961. It was in this speech that Kennedy announced that he would be holding his first face-to-face meeting with Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev later that spring. But the address will always be remembered for the astounding proposal he laid before the legislators. “I believe,” he declared, “this nation should commit itself to achieving the

You have that rare quality that too few people possess and which is an absolute must if one is going to be a leader—the ability to make a split second decision from the heart and the viscera as well as the mind

budget of between $7 billion and $9 billion.

Studies later found that of the four million people who made up their minds based on the first television debate, three million voted for Kennedy. It was arguably the deciding factor in one of the closest elections in U.S. history. By a popular vote margin of one sixth of 1 percent of the nearly sixty-nine million votes cast, John Kennedy was chose

within a year both Alan Shepard and Virgil Grissom were launched into space. Then, on February 20, 1962, came John Glenn’s historic 75,679-mile, three-orbital flight.

On November 8, 1960, forty-two-year-old John F. Kennedy was elected president of the United States.

When it comes to oratorical flights … you give a reasonable imitation of a bird with a broken wing. You do get off the ground but it’s wearing on the audience to keep wondering if you are going to stay up.

My own guess is that people will welcome matter-of-fact and unpretentious discussion