John F. Kennedy Quotes
I hope you keep them.
When the President met Nikita Khrushchev for talks, the Premier was wearing medals on his chest. Kennedy inquired what they were for, and the Premier explained that they were Lenin Peace Medals: See {610011} , {624747} , {45720} for more quotations regarding the summit meeting.
John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963, 35th President of the United States (Democrat, MA), Remark to Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev, Vienna, Austria, June, 1961
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See {609999} , {624747} , {45720} for more quotations regarding the summit meeting.
This was the address where FDR used the “arsenal of democracy” phrase which became so famous. A similar phrase was used in May by Robert E. Sherwood--{624748}. Then Jean Monnet began to use the exact phrase in Mid 1940--{624746}. He almost certainly had read Sherwood’s earlier, similar phrase. However so had Presidential Aid Harry Hopkins who thought that it would be a good phrase for President Roosevelt to use to “brand” the activity of the United States. So diplomatically, Monnet was asked not to use the phrase any more, and he acceded to the request. At the end of the year, FDR gave his address with this quotation.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, often referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. Kennedy served at the height of the Cold War, and the majority of his work as president concerned relations with the Soviet Union and Cuba. A Democrat, Kennedy represented Massachusetts in both houses of the U.S. Congress prior to becoming president.
