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Inauguration Speech

Inauguration Speech. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xE0iPY7XGBo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3s6U8GActdQ&NR=1. Text of Inaugural Address. Ask not what your country can do for you, - ask what you can do for your country.

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Inauguration Speech

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  1. Inauguration Speech http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xE0iPY7XGBo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3s6U8GActdQ&NR=1

  2. Text of Inaugural Address Ask not what your country can do for you,- ask what you can do for your country

  3. “…Our faith in him and in what he was trying to do was absolute, and he could impart to our work together a sense of challenge and adventure-a feeling that he was moving, and the world with him, toward a better time.” Pierre Salinger, Press Secretary Kennedy’s Charisma:

  4. Increase aid to education Provide health insurance to the elderly Create Dept. of Urban Affairs Help Migrant Workers “New Frontier” Goals

  5. Economy Improve wages Department of Housing & Urban Affairs Unemployment Medical Women’s Rights & Civil Rights Defense – “Flexible Response” New Frontier Speech given by JFK at the Democratic National Convention in 1960

  6. Less of Ike’s “brinkmanship” and more “flexible response” more conventional troops and weapons Support of Special Forces “Green Berets” Kennedy: the Pragmatist

  7. Helping the people of interested countries in meeting their needs for trained men and women. Helping promote a better understanding of Americans on the part of the peoples served. Helping promote a better understanding of other peoples on the part of all Americans. Kennedy’s Enduring Legacy: The Peace Corps

  8. CIA trained 1,400 Cuban Exiles Kennedy cancelled air support Cubans did not rise up in support of exiles Castro personally led defense of island 1,189 captured/100 killed US paid $53 in food and medicine for their release Bay of Pigs, Cuba: April 17, 1961

  9. Berlin Wall June 1961

  10. Cuban Missile Crisis13 days in October, 1962

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