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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"We choose to go to the moon and do the other things, not because they are easy..."
This is from President Kennedy's speech.
I've always wondered WHAT ARE THE OTHER THINGS?
President John F. Kennedy gave a speech at Rice University in 1962 about the quest to put a man on 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," he said to a cheering crowd.
dawg
(10,626 posts)And did we do them?
Wounded Bear
(58,832 posts)A lot of the groundwork for Johnson passing the Voting Rights Act was laid by the Kennedy administration.
milestogo
(16,829 posts)LunaSea
(2,897 posts)And often only quoted.
Here's the text with Kennedys notes-
https://www.jfklibrary.org/asset-viewer/archives/JFKPOF/040/JFKPOF-040-001
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_choose_to_go_to_the_Moon#External_links
Journeyman
(15,056 posts)Kennedy placed space exploration and the decision to make a moon landing into the context of previous efforts towards progress of many kinds: the industrial revolution, modern invention, nuclear power . . .
The entire speech can be found here: https://er.jsc.nasa.gov/seh/ricetalk.htm
milestogo
(16,829 posts)JHB
(37,170 posts)...And they may well ask: Why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas? We choose to go to the moon..."
Naturally, the "Why does Rice play Texas?" bit was a get-a-chuckle line, since he was speaking at Rice University.
Full speech below. The part I quoted starts at the 8:22 mark. He'd laid out more during the eight previous minutes too.
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