President Kennedy was handsome, charismatic, and intelligent. He used his wit to disarm reporters, and his charm and knowledge to persuade voters to elect him over the more experienced Richard Nixon. But those were not his most important oratorical assets, according to Greene.
“The thing that defined JFK,” said Greene, “was vision.”
In his 1961 inaugural address, Kennedy committed the US to sending a man to the moon, even though the pledge seemed impossible. But Kennedy had the ability not only to see new possibilities, but also to help the rest of the nation see them too.
