Leonard Pitts Jr.: America in winter
by Leonard Pitts Jr., Tribune Content Agency
Sep 13, 2022
2 minutes
President John F. Kennedy committed America to landing on the moon in a speech on Sept. 12, 1962. It was spring. The calendar said otherwise, yes. But, as has been argued before in this space, Kennedy presided over a season of renewal, a season when optimism was birthright, confidence, high and horizons, endless.
“We choose to go to the moon ...
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