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On a cold January day, a forty-three-year-old man was sworn in as the chief executive of his country. By his side stood his predecessor, a famous general who, fifteen years earlier, had commanded his nation’s armed forces in a war that resulted in the defeat of Germany. The young leader was raised in the Roman Catholic faith. He spent the next five
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Kennedy’s 1961 speech on this issue remains a model of clarity. Look it up on the Web and read it. You will be startled at how political speech has changed since then. Kennedy spoke as a decision maker talking to adults, not as a preacher addressing children.
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The transition between the thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth presidencies of the United States, the period that had begun at the moment on November 22, 1963, when Ken O’Donnell had said of the thirty-fifth President, “He’s gone,” had been brought to an end with Lyndon Johnson’s speech on January 8, 1964. It had lasted forty-seven days, just short of
... See moreRobert A. Caro • The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson IV
President Kennedy also spoke at the fundraiser, arguing just one month after the end of the Cuban Missile Crisis that culture had great practical value in an age of conflict. The encouragement of art is political in the most profound sense, not as a weapon in the struggle but as an instrument of understanding of the futility of struggle. He noted
... See moreJFK’s campaign success was predicated on his unifying message of America vs. threats to liberty and prosperity, rather than internal domestic conflict (Dallek)
Throughout his life, Lyndon Johnson had aimed at only one goal, and in his efforts to advance along the path to that goal had displayed a determination—a desperation, really—that raised the question of what limits he would drive himself to in that quest, and indeed whether there were any limits. Had Johnson read Jack Kennedy more accurately, he
... See moreRobert A. Caro • The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson IV
YOU’LL STILL HAVE THE SPEAKER,” John Connally had told Johnson in Los Angeles, advising him to accept the vice presidential nomination: as long as he had Rayburn behind him, he would have power in dealing with the Kennedys. Now he no longer had the Speaker behind him. He no longer had the Senate behind him. He had no one behind him in Washington.
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