04/27/1961
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"We must be willing to devote our national energies to demonstrating in every form of human endeavor we are second to none, that we are first and will continue to be first regardless of what challenges..."
"It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom."
"For the first time in the history of the United States an enemy stands poised at the throat of the United States."
"Let us hope that it will not require the launching of Russia's first reconnaissance satellite peering down on every part of the Nation like a daily fleet of U-2 planes."