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Too many of our fellow citizens are prevented from fully using the education they do get.

The brilliant Solicitor General of the United States is a Negro, the first to hold this high office.

It is no longer possible to be a mere observer at that place.

I interviewed about 19 men throughout the United States and finally selected Jim Webb, and I prevailed upon him to come and begin this undertaking.

And while I expect they will continue to make their argument of isolationism versus globalism--for we all are determined to preserve their right to speak up in this land--I hope they, too, expect me to try to keep on making my case for…

Asia just must no longer sit at the second table of the 20th century's concern.

Seldom have nations joined together in a collective venture that is so endowed with promise.

It is not possible--and it is not right--to neglect a people's hopes because the ocean is vast, or their culture is alien, or their language may be strange, or their race different, or their skin another color.

Together--your lands and mine--we will build it.

This is a moment in which history and hope meet and move on from here as partners.

The whole Nation now understands the true significance of America's space efforts.

We intend to land the first man on the surface of the moon and we intend to do this in the decade of the sixties.

And what is that case? It is simply that there is no rest from the trials of freedom, there is no recalling what the pace of change has done to the map of this big world, there is no reducing our responsibilities while the challenges of…

I believe that the development of the space age will bring the beginning of the longest and greatest boom of abundance and prosperity in the history of man.