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"All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin."
Man, what a speech. Does it accurately reflect what the US was actually doing globally or domestically? Does it mean JFK was truly as great as he and his speechwriters made him sound? No, no, of course not. But still... what a speech. https://www.jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk/historic-speeches/inaugural-address …
Interesting that he mentioned "accidental self-destruction". Seems like that would indeed be the biggest risk, but presidents tend to speak mostly about the risks of intentional escalation.
Yeah. JFK (and his advisors — Bundy, McNamara, etc.) were pretty attuned to the accidental nuclear war issue, and got only more so as time went on (accidents, Berlin Crisis, Cuban Missile Crisis, etc.). But I didn't realize they'd worked it into the inaugural address.
JFK was, in my eyes, the real progenitor of the liberal rules-based world order, at least in the security realm. His genius, after a hair-raising first two years, was casting nuclear weapons as an ideological threat to a common future, capitalist or communist ...
and then connecting the threat of nuclear testing, borrowing from women peace activists, not to national security, but to white suburban prosperity and fertility, a grammar resonant enough with the electorate to cushion him from early neoconservative accusations of weakness.
What a contrast with the current US President.
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