Greatest speech ever.

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Greatest speech ever.

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Trump in Poland

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God Bless the Kennedys!

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7/10

Say what you want about W, but his bullhorn speech and the joint session speech after were the 2 greatest.

Great speech, but could be bulletproof if he (read congress) didn't drive up the debt during 8 years.

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Great speech, but could be bulletproof if he (read congress) didn't drive up the debt during 8 years.

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The only way to not have deficits anymore is to raise taxes to Eisenhower-era levels. We can all bitch about foreign aid, the NEA, NPR, or even the defense budget.

Until we do something about direct transfers to individuals, there is no hope. In 1953, these accounted for 14% of federal outlays. In 2017, that number was 72%.

The next Civil War won't be over guns or speech. It will be stopping this runaway train.

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Greatest speech ever.

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Fair retort.
Washington's fairwell, Gettysburg address, Day of Infamy, I have a Dream, etc. all rank higher.

However, it was a phenomenal speech. It was the best anyone could have done in the situation. It was literally put together on a plane in about an hour. It was exceptional.

The introduction was was perfect.
"I'm only going to talk to you just for a minute or so this evening, because I have some -- some very sad news for all of you -- Could you lower those signs, please? -- I have some very sad news for all of you, and, I think, sad news for all of our fellow citizens, and people who love peace all over the world; and that is that Martin Luther King was shot and was killed tonight in Memphis, Tennessee."

His appeal against racism was as good as has ever occurred.
"For those of you who are black and are tempted to fill with -- be filled with hatred and mistrust of the injustice of such an act, against all white people, I would only say that I can also feel in my own heart the same kind of feeling. I had a member of my family killed, but he was killed by a white man.

But we have to make an effort in the United States. We have to make an effort to understand, to get beyond, or go beyond these rather difficult times."

He quoted the Greek poet Aeschylus,
"Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget
falls drop by drop upon the heart,
until, in our own despair,
against our will,
comes wisdom
through the awful grace of God."

He offered logic,
"What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence or lawlessness, but love and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice towards those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or whether they be black."

. . . . and Indianapolis was one of the few major cities not to riot.



61 days later, RFK was dead.

That is an amazing bit of history really. Good post.

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Could you address the speech?

I am addressing the 'God bless the Kennedys!' YMMV