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New England and the South

In his first year as the Junior Senator from Massachusetts, JOHN F. KENNEDY in three incisive speeches hit hard at the unfair competitive practices that have led industry to migrate from New England...

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Poetry and Power

This day, devoted to the memory of Robert Frost, offers an opportunity for reflection which is prized by politicians as well as by others and even by poets. For Robert Frost was one of the granite...

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JFK’s New Industrial State

After three terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, JFK became a senator in 1953, at age 35. The following year, he published a cover story in The Atlantic that delved into the eco­ nomic disaster...

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The Purpose of Poetry

Robert Frost held a special place in President Kennedy’s intellectual pantheon. Frost died in January 1963, at age 88. The following October, Amherst College held a groundbreaking ceremony for the...

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