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In reply to the discussion: Is This Barack Obama's 2nd Term? Is it Bill Clinton's 3rd? Or Is It Ronald Reagan's 9th? [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)If not, you should've been. Geez, we thought we could do anything... Go to the moon. Live in peace and share prosperity on earth. Treat all people as equals.
There were 1,036 days from Jan. 20, 1961 to November 22, 1963. Thats 24,864 hours or 1,491,840 minutes or 89,510,400 seconds. The periods been called the thousand days of Camelot. Really just a blink of an eye. For America it means more than that, though. It truly was a legendary time and America truly was a magical place a place where anything was possible.
Consider what President Kennedy worked to achieve: He raised the minimum wage, cut taxes, kept America from nuclear annihilation at least three times, maintained world peace, set about to bring equal rights for all Americans, integrated FBI and the Secret Service, got the country to invest in the arts and education, and set out to do the impossible land an American on the Moon and return him safely to the Earth. He did all that in 1,036 days.
A thousand days. That is not much time considering how much JFK accomplished. It was different from what's passed for government service since then. President Kennedy used each day to make ours a better nation for ALL Americans.
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