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| Image # : |
69-HC-1245 |
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| Date : |
09/12/1962
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Title
Kennedy at Rice University
Full Description
President Kennedy speaks before a crowd of 35,000 people at Rice
University in the football field. The following are excerpts from his
speech.
" ...We set sail on his new sea because there is a new knowledge to
be gained, and new rights to be won, and they must be won and used for
the progress of all people.
...Whether it will become a force for good or ill depends on man, and
only if the United States occupies a position of pre-eminence can we
help decide whether this new ocean will be a sea of peace or a new
terrifying theater of war. But I do say space can be explored and
mastered without feeding the fires of war, without repeating the
mistakes that man has made with extending his writ around this globe of
ours.
...There is no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict in outer
space as yet. Its conquest deserves the best of all mankind, and its
opportunity for peaceful cooperation may never come again. But why,
some say the Moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask,
why climb the highest mountian? Why - 35 years ago - why fly the Atlantic?
Why does Rice play Texas? We choose to go to the Moon, we choose to go
to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they
are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to
organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that
challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to
postpone, and one in which we intend to win, and the others too."
Keywords
President John F. Kennedy President Kennedy JFK Rice University Speech
Subject Category
Presidents,
Reference Numbers
- Center:
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- Center Number:
69-HC-1245
- GRIN DataBase Number:
GPN-2000-001619
Source Information
- Creator/Photographer: NASA
- Original Source: DIGITAL
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