Jfk Inaugural Speech Outline

John F. Kennedy was the 35th president of the United States of America. He ordered the Pay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, sent thousands of military “advisors” to Vietnam, was part of the Cuban Missile Crisis and he introduced his “New Frontier” social legislation.

John F. Kennedy was inaugurated into office on January 20, 1961. The day of the inauguration it was a cold and clear day, the capital was covered in snow from the previous night. The Inauguration began with a religious invocation and prayers. Then African-American opera singer Marian Anderson sang the Star Spangled Banner. Then Robert Frost recited his poem “The Gift Outright”. Then John F. Kennedy was administrated the oath of office by Cheif Justice Earl Warren. During JFK’s inauguration

Kennedy was president on May 25, 1961, standing upon Congress to deliver a special message on “ urgent national needs.” During this message he asked for an additional $7 billion to $9 billion for the space program over a course of five years, saying that “this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before the decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.” He settled upon this goal as a way of focusing and mobilizing the nation’s lagging space efforts. After a year Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom were the first to American’s to travel into space. On February 20, 1962, John Glenn Jr was the first American to orbit the Earth. On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 launched to land on the moon carrying Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Edwin Aldrin Jr. It was John F. Kennedy’s dream to land the first man on the moon, his dream came true but he never got to see

Kennedy declared a naval blockade of Cuba after he found out that the Soviet Union was creating many nuclear and long-range missile places in Cuba might produce a threat to the United States. The tight deadlock lasted almost two weeks before Khrushchev agreed to disassemble Soviet missile sites in Cuba in replace for America’s promise not to capture the island and the withdraw of U.S. missiles from Turkey and additional sites nearby Soviet boundaries. John F. Kennedy won his most important foreign affairs triumph when Nikita Khrushchev accepted to join him and Britain’s Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in the signing of a nuclear test ban treaty. Kennedy’s wish to control the expansion of communism led him to increase the United States participation in the problem in