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KENNEDY, JOHN F., President. Carbon typescript of a speech, his "Address...at Executive Committee Meeting American Legion," WITH NOTES IN JFK'S HAND AND SEVERAL EMENDATIONS IN JACQUELINE KENNEDY'S HAND, delivered in Indianapolis, 16 October 1953. 5 pages (including title-page), 4to, third page with 2-inch strip of corrected text taped to page, fifth page verso with approximately one hundred words in JFK's hand.
SENATOR KENNEDY AND THE COLD WAR
Just one month after their marriage, Jacqueline Kennedy adds her own touches to husband's speech on Soviet military power and the Eisenhower administration's defense policy, concluding: "...[W]e can be sure that the Soviets today are making a maximum effort to improve their capabilities in both air power and atomic and hydrogen weapons...[I]n view of these facts it appears obvious that the United States has no alternative than to give priority to the development of a Strategic Air Force with sufficient retaliatory powers to threaten a potential aggressor with havoc and ruin...I do not see how a country which is productively the most powerful in the world...can be satisfied with anything less than an Air Force second to none. Today we do not have it..."
SENATOR KENNEDY AND THE COLD WAR
Just one month after their marriage, Jacqueline Kennedy adds her own touches to husband's speech on Soviet military power and the Eisenhower administration's defense policy, concluding: "...[W]e can be sure that the Soviets today are making a maximum effort to improve their capabilities in both air power and atomic and hydrogen weapons...[I]n view of these facts it appears obvious that the United States has no alternative than to give priority to the development of a Strategic Air Force with sufficient retaliatory powers to threaten a potential aggressor with havoc and ruin...I do not see how a country which is productively the most powerful in the world...can be satisfied with anything less than an Air Force second to none. Today we do not have it..."