We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.

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John F. Kennedy
35th US president (1917-1963). Youngest elected president and first Catholic in office. He navigated the Cuban Missile Crisis, founded the Peace Corps, and aimed America at the Moon before being assassinated in Dallas.
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