2022年2月8日 · On January 20, 1961, President John F. Kennedy delivered his inaugural address in which he announced that "we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and success of liberty."

Listen to the speech. Inaugural Address of President John F. Kennedy Washington, D.C. January 20, 1961. Vice President Johnson, Mr. Speaker, Mr. Chief Justice, President Eisenhower, Vice President Nixon, President Truman, Reverend Clergy, fellow citizens:

For I have sworn before you and Almighty God the same solemn oath our forebears prescribed nearly a century and three-quarters ago. The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life.

2 天之前 · On a frigid Winter's day, January 20, 1961, John Fitzgerald Kennedy took the oath of office from Chief Justice Earl Warren, to become the 35th President of the United States. At age 43, he was the youngest man, and the first Irish Catholic to be elected to the office of President.

2011年1月20日 · Full text transcript and audio mp3 and video excerpt of John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address

On January 20, 1961, John F. Kennedy was sworn in as the thirty-fifth President of the United States. His short, fourteen-minute inaugural address is best remembered for a single line: "My fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do …

President John F. Kennedy delivered his Inaugural Address on January 20, 1961... not on January 21, 1961 (despite the incorrect date given above).

The inaugural ceremony is a defining moment in a President's career, and no one knew this better than John F. Kennedy as he prepared for his own inauguration of January 20, 1961. He wanted his address to be short and clear—devoid of partisan rhetoric and focused on foreign policy.

2004年1月22日 · The audio from John Fitzgerald Kennedy's 1961 Inaugural Address. This is the speech with the famous quote "And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country."

For I have sworn before you and Almighty God the same solemn oath our forbears prescribed nearly a century and three-quarters ago. [3] The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life.