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We Choose the Moon

Audio Transcript

PRESIDENT JOHN F KENNEDY: 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’re willing to accept, one that we’re unwilling to postpone, and one we intend to win and the others too.

Sound file from NASA

I’d like a president who speaks like this—and whose speechwriters write like this—in the White House again.

(Except for “and do the other things” and “and the others too”. Not sure what the heck that was about.)

(via itsfullofstars)