January 18, 2005: Headlines: Presidents - Kennedy: Speaking Out: Inaugurals: PCOL Exclusive: Aspen Daily News Staff Writer Thomas Watkins says: Kennedy, for all his personal and sexual demons, understood without equivocation that the New Frontier he foresaw needed the clean-burning fuel of personal sacrifice. If America were to get what it wanted in the world, then we would have to give without necessarily expecting anyone would give anything back in return
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January 18, 2005: Headlines: Presidents - Kennedy: Speaking Out: Inaugurals: PCOL Exclusive: Aspen Daily News Staff Writer Thomas Watkins says: Kennedy, for all his personal and sexual demons, understood without equivocation that the New Frontier he foresaw needed the clean-burning fuel of personal sacrifice. If America were to get what it wanted in the world, then we would have to give without necessarily expecting anyone would give anything back in return
This excerpt from an editorial by Thomas Watkins, a staff writer for the Aspen Daily News, provides an interesting commentary on jfk and the call for personal sacrifice.
Aspen Daily News Staff Writer Thomas Watkins says: Kennedy, for all his personal and sexual demons, understood without equivocation that the New Frontier he foresaw needed the clean-burning fuel of personal sacrifice. If America were to get what it wanted in the world, then we would have to give without necessarily expecting anyone would give anything back in return
Aspen Daily News Staff Writer Thomas Watkins says: Kennedy, for all his personal and sexual demons, understood without equivocation that the New Frontier he foresaw needed the clean-burning fuel of personal sacrifice. If America were to get what it wanted in the world, then we would have to give without necessarily expecting anyone would give anything back in return
Kennedy, for all his personal and sexual demons, understood without equivocation that the New Frontier he foresaw needed the clean-burning fuel of personal sacrifice. If America were to get what it wanted in the world, then we would have to give without necessarily expecting anyone would give anything back in return
Give them liberty
By Thomas Watkins/Aspen Daily News Staff Writer
[Excerpt]
Let the word go forth that the inaugural address of President John F. Kennedy in 1961 shows that nearly half-a-hundred years later we the people are not willing to bear any burden or pay any price - large or small - to bring our ideals to a suffering world.
Kennedy, for all his personal and sexual demons, understood without equivocation that the New Frontier he foresaw needed the clean-burning fuel of personal sacrifice. If America were to get what it wanted in the world, then we would have to give without necessarily expecting anyone would give anything back in return. Kennedy asked: "Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country." The Peace Corps and sundry other agencies were founded to spread our red-white-and-blue goodness to the world in systematic fashion. No one in the New Frontier doubted altruism might benefit us as a nation down the line, but there was a selflessness inherent in the quotidian acts of sacrifice that bespoke the best of what lies within us as a country.
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