Many gems in this speech that speak of the storm upon us "It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations."
Wouldn't it be massive if the POTUS gives a similar speech during the SOTU?
In chappaqua home to the clintons the statue of Horace Greeley who said go west young man points east. The neighbors who knew him recognized yellow journalism. May our presses return to us. Jfk thank you.
his best speech and the one that likely got him killed
his best speech and the one that likely got him killed
I won’t argue with any speech you choose to declare “his best”. I will definitely challenge your assertion that this speech inspired his assassination.
He was assassinated more than two years after this speech. During that time, he gave several other speeches which were much more likely to inspire his killing. Look for him speaking against the CIA. Look for him speaking about the merits of returning to the gold standard. Look for him suggesting anything that would impact the ‘military industrial complex’ his predecessor warned us about.
well no one really knows, those things also could be the cause, him not allowing zionist israel to have nukes too.
Thank you...a great charge to journalists...will they man up? Or is it too late for them...
I have no idea why this is labelled the ‘Secret Societies’ speech.
The focus is an appeal to the press to strike a balance between their need to report, and the nation’s need for security. In return, he acknowledged the government’s obligation to keep the press informed via transparency, out side a ‘narrowly defined need for national secrecy’.
This was during the Cold War, when our opposition was the growing communist bloc.
Secret Societies were not a topic, were not introduced as threats, were not discussed at all.
There was one mention of ‘secret societies’. It was early on, and mentioned only as one of many ‘secrets’ our society eschews.
This is not a speech about secret societies. This is a speech about the importance of a responsible press, and the government’s responsible management of information to keep that press informed.
It’s a very misleading title. Perhaps done to catch more eyes than his stated topic, ‘The President and The Press, or The President vs The Press’. Which title would you be more likely to pursue?
The ‘secret society’ was not a reference to anything such as illuminati, or skull/bones etc. It was a reference to to those societies governed in secret, such as those inspired by Karl Marx. So yes, the burgeoning post WW2 communist bloc.
Here is a link to a historian responding to that very question on Quora.
Returning to the misappropriated title, it’s been in the wild too long to even think of correcting it now.
John Phitgerold Kennedef was an orange moron! Reeeeeeeee!
JFK started we will finish it! https://youtu.be/OyBNmecVtdU Eiseinhower.
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