Similarities Between Kennedy And Jfk Inaugural Address

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As am American I still believe that Lincoln’s and Kennedy’s Inaugural speech is still relevant in today’s time. As a nation we still struggle to function as a whole. Some Americans feel as if they are in slavery due to the lack of employment and our nation reaching a recession economy. Nonetheless, both Presidents’ were interested in bonding the American people. As stated in John F. Kennedy Inaugural Speech in 1961 “Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country" (Kennedy 592). Kennedy new then we will have work as one to accomplish anything in life. Many years before Kennedy’s Inaugural speech Lincoln’s states "With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see

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