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Not because it is easy, but because it is hard…

We Choose To Go To The Moon

This speech, which was delivered by John F. Kennedy at Rice University in Houston, TX on September 12, 1962, might have been directed to the space race, but it speaks to many more things that were a concern for the Kennedy administration of the early 1960’s as well as the decisions that must be made by whoever occupies the White House during any decade.

The tenure of JFK, like the of Bush administration, was punctuated by choices with which others have found in:   the Bay of Pigs, sending advisers into Vietnam, a coup in Iraq that would eventually bring into power Saddam Hussein.

History, perhaps shaded by Kennedy’s tragic death a year after this speech, has found much laudable about him and overlooked both his personal and political frailties.  As George Bush enters the the end of his tenure, it is interesting to consider how history will view him.  Will time prove that his decision, although unpopular during his presidency, were made not because they were easy, but because they were hard.

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2 Responses to “Not because it is easy, but because it is hard…”

  1. I’m not a Dem or a Libber, and you know it, so, here goes… I
    think history will judge Bush to have been one of the most
    *challenged* presidents we ever had, 9-11 did that, and his initial
    reaction to 9-11 almost had me thinking that Bush was more than I
    had presumed him to be… Boy oh boy, was I ever wrong… If Jimmy
    Carter had been allowed to serve 2 terms he may well have been the
    worst POTUS ever, but it’s going to be a close race between him and
    GWB… There’s my .02 worth… I think he was better than Gore or
    Kerry would have been but the analogy I like to use is this, what’s
    worse?? To burn to death or drown?? You’re dead either way… :|

  2. Fred,

    I always depend on you for the unvarnished truth.

    While I agree with you that the Bush administration has been “challenged” in many areas, he made some unpopular decisions that only history will reveal as to being wise or foolish. That being said, will historians continue to vilify his administration even if some of those decisions prove correct?

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