An Analysis Of John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address

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“A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.”——John F. Kennedy. AKA JFK, the 35th president of the United States, the youngest president in the white house. Ever since Kennedy graduated at Harvard, he had a strong interest with foreign politics, and in particular he is an anti-Communist. During his presidency he deal with many conflicts with other countries, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the bay of pigs invasion, the space race, and the building of the Berlin Wall… But the Communist states in Vietnam caused most of his attention. In his policy, he promised in his inaugural address, let every nation know, that were shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival …show more content…
But the New Frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises—it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them.” He promises that the set of challenges upon all the Americans. Also in 1961 the major world event was the two superpowers in the world, the Communist Soviet Union, and the United States of America. Kennedy’s attitude towards Russia was pretty aggressive.Russia was part of the Vietnam war, they supported north Vietnam with weapons and troops with the other communist countries: China, east Germany, north Korea, and …show more content…
Ever since the red scare in the 1920s, the revolution in Russia based on Marxist teachings that all the private properties belong to the governments, it was serious threat to all americans and their freedom, also against the declaration of independence, the people lose their basic rights, the right to life, liberty and happiness. During the cold war era, South Asia is part of the battle field, Cuba, Korea, and Germany was also involved, the purpose for all this was to stop the spreading of communists and protect the American way of

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