President John F Kennedy's address at Miami Beach at a 'Fund Raising' Dinner in honor of Senator George A. Smathers. Dignitaries sit behind President Kennedy at the at the Fontainebleau Hotel (4441 Collins Ave, Miami Beach, Florida, U.S. 33140) as he delivers some lines of humor about his relationship with Smathers. “In 1956 I was at the Democratic Convention, and I said--I didn't know whether I would run for Vice President or not, so I said, "George, what do you think? This is it. They need a young man." "It's your chance." So I ran--and lost.” President Kennedy recounts his experience with Smathers as the audience laughs.
During his inauguration ceremonies, President John F Kennedy gives speech from podium at the Capitol in Washington DC. Officials and dignitaries seated in the background. The President gives message to the citizens of America and the World. He gives a message of goodwill and world peace. Speech includes famous line, "Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country." President Kennedy shakes hands with dignitaries after his speech, including former Presidents Eisenhower and Truman, Vice-President Lyndon Johnson, and former Vice-President Richard Nixon. Also visible, Mrs. Eisenhower, Mrs. Nixon, Mrs. Johnson, Mrs. Kennedy.
United States President John F. Kennedy addresses the United Nations General Assembly after the sudden death of the UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld in a plane accident, during his peace mission to Congo in Africa. The United Nations Headquarters (405 E 45th St, New York, NY 10017, United States) in New York City. Kennedy from the speaker's podium speaks about the need for a peaceful world and points out the tensions due to actions of Soviet Union, all over the world. Kennedy says "Never have the nations of the world had so much to lose, or so much to gain...together we shall save our planet, or together we shall perish in its flames."
USGS (United States Coast Guard Ship ) Eagle in Washington DC. United States President John F. Kennedy welcomes the barque after its summer cruise from Europe. U.S. cadets on the barque. President Kennedy shakes hands with the sailors aboard. President Kennedy on the wheel with the Captain standing beside him.
The third Kennedy-Nixon Presidential Debate in the United States. Charles Van Fremd from CBS News asks Democratic candidate Senator John F Kennedy whether he owed an apology to Vice President Nixon and the Republican Party, on behalf of Democrats, after former President Harry Truman "bluntly suggested where the Vice President and the Republican Party could go." Kennedy answers that President Harry S Truman has his methods of expressing things and he has been in politics for fifty years. He says that he could not tell President Truman to change his particular speaking manner, and perhaps only Mrs Truman could. Republican candidate Vice President Richard M Nixon says that U.S. President has an obligation not to lose his temper in public. He speaks of the importance of the standing of the office of the President, and how children all over America are influenced by the behavior and words of the President. He states that he is proud that President Eisenhower has restored dignity and good language to the conduct of U.S. Presidency. He implies that if he wins the election he would be the right kind of role model for children.
Return of United States Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson from a two-week official tour of Southeast Asia (Vietnam) and reports to President John F. Kennedy on his trip. A helicopter carrying Vice President Johnson lands on the White House lawn. The Washington Monument can be seen in the background upon the helicopter’s landing. Row of cameramen with The Eisenhower Executive Office Building (EEOB) in background. Mrs. Lady Bird Johnson shakes hands with President Kennedy. Vice President Johnson’s daughter, Lynda Bird, can be seen disembarking from the helicopter behind her parents. President Kennedy speaks with Vice President Johnson and Mrs. Lady Bird Johnson as they walk on the White House lawn.
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