Who was the political figure that recited this speech? Maybe gtech knows lol What kind of peace do I mean? What kind of peace do we seek? Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war. Not the peace of the grave or the security of the slave. I am talking about genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living, the kind that enables men and nations to grow and to hope and to build a better life for their children -- not merely peace for Americans but peace for all men and women -- not merely peace in our time but peace for all time. I speak of peace because of the new face of war. Total war makes no sense in an age when great powers can maintain large and relatively invulnerable nuclear forces and refuse to surrender without resort to those forces. It makes no sense in an age when a single nuclear weapon contains almost ten times the explosive force delivered by 11 of the Allied air forces in the Second World War. It makes no sense in an age when the deadly poisons produced by a nuclear exchange would be carried by wind and water and soil and seed to the far corners of the globe and to generations yet unborn
Good answer guys. Imagine if he was prez today, we definatly wouldnt be manipulated into that disaster of a war in iraq
Well, as much as I admired JFK, I am not so sure. The little police action called Vietnam comes to mind.
JFK had lots of good quotes: "the current tax system exerts too heavy a drag on growth …reduces the financial incentives for personal effort, investment and risk taking." "It is a paradoxical truth, that tax rates are too high today, and tax revenues are too low, and the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the tax rates". "An economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough revenues to balance our budget - just as it will never produce enough jobs or profits."
Northpoint, if u thought jfk was responsible for the escalation of the vietnam war, i suggest you go over nsam 263 and 273