Below is a link to Kennedy's full speech. It is definitely worth reading as a snapshot into a critical and very interesting time in our history, but it is also politically very partisan with the Cold War lurking around every corner. The Ted Sorensen connection makes sense to me as well, but why here and why now? I admit that I also find it pretty obscure as a theme for the first Opening Day under new Orioles ownership.
https://www.shapell.org/manuscript/jfk-1960-new-frontier-speech/#transcripts
There are three things I like about being on an Italian cruise ship,” Churchill supposedly says. “First, their cuisine is unsurpassed. Second, their service is superb. And then, in time of emergency, there is none of this nonsense about women and children first.
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