F Kennedy's Inaugural Address

Kennedy was 43 years old when he was elected to be president and was very popular (2). He inspired Americans to become more active citizens and took office in the middle part of a recession that had been going on for quite some time. He led what was known as a renewed drive for public service and provided federal support for the growing of the civil rights movement. Kennedy was drawn to international challenges by the Soviet Union’s nuclear arsenal and Cold War battle for the hearts and minds of the Third War Nations (4). In 1961 Kennedy told Americans that they needed to work together in the pursuit of progress and elimination of poverty, and work together in the battle of the Cold War against Communism. However, Kennedy was not able to achieve most of his proposed legislation during his life time and life as
And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you-ask what you can do for your country (3). His commitment to combat the spread of communism led to escalating America’s involvement in the conflict that was happening in Vietnam at the time. Kennedy sent supplies, financial assistance, and 15,000 military advisers over to Vietnam. His projects of massive income tax cuts and sweeping civil rights were not passed until after his death (3). He proposed a joint Soviet mission to the moon (9). On May 1961, he committed the United States to land a man on the moon by the end of his term and by the end of the 1960s. In 1963 he had concerns about the cost of the space programs, so he made a proposal with the Soviet Union on a joint expedition to the moon. Unfortunately, he did not live to see this achievement; however, his advocacy of the space program caused the successful launch of the first American space flights that were