Chicago, Il
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Address at the University of Chicago China Conference, Chicago, Illinois
The future of our relations with China may lie beyond our vision but it is not completely beyond our control.
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Address at the University of Chicago China Conference, Chicago, Illinois
It is the shaping impulse of America that neither fate nor nature nor the irresistible tides of history, but the work of our own hands, matched to reason and principle, which can determine destiny. There is pride in that, even arrogance, but there is also experience and truth. In any event, it is the only…
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Address at the Joint Defense Appeal of the American Jewish Committee and the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, Chicago, Illinois
My faith is that Americans are not an inert people. My conviction is that we are rising as a people to confront the hard challenges of our age—and that we know that the hardest challenges are often those within ourselves
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Illusions in the Aftermath of Tet
Tags Share The events of the last few weeks have demonstrated anew the truth of Lord Halifax’s dictum that although hope “is a very good company by the way…[it] is generally a wrong guide.” Our enemy, savagely striking at will across all of South Vietnam, has finally shattered the mask of official illusion with which…
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Address to the National Council of Christians and Jews
Tags Share The unfinished business at hand is the most difficult and dangerous that we have ever faced. Today’s problems of intolerance are harder than yesterday’s; tomorrow’s will be harder still. One reason for this difficulty is that racial intolerance is harder to combat than religious intolerance. Most people, after all, have to be told…
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Speech at the Inland Daily Press Association
Tags Share I very much appreciate your invitation to be here today and discuss with you some of the problems we have uncovered so far in our investigation, as well as some of the areas in which legislation is being considered. The committee…has heard over 250 different witnesses in some 130 sessions. We have received…
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