It’s a half hour speech – but if you have time, give it a look.  Though it’s 46 years old, much of it, if you leave out the references to long-gone politicians, the Cold War and Nikita Kruschev, and the spending figures which seem so ludicrously tiny today) is as dead-on today as it was the day it was broadcast.

“You and I have the courage to say to enemies there is a price we will not pay, and there is a point beyond which they must not advance…You and I have a rendezvous with destiny.  We’ll preserve for our children for this, the last best home for mankind, or sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness…we’ll remember that we have the right to make our own decisions, and to determine our own destiny”.

And that point is today.

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