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To deliver his farewell address on january 17, 1961, it was his last chance to speak to all of america as president. >> this evening, i come to you with a message of leave taking and farewell. >> from beginning to end, it was just about 16 minutes. but it expressed a lifetime of experience. >> we yet realize that americas leadership and prestige depend not merely upon our unmatched material progress, riches, and military strength but on how we use our power in the interest of world peace and hum...

>> his election represented a vitality of a new generation coming into power. it was not the soaring rhetoric of inauguration that promised new direction. it was the idea that the yu youngest president was coming into president after the oldest president was leaving office. so there was a sense of activism, a sense of citizen involvement, and a sense that there would be a change from the silence generation of the 50s. >> good evening, my fellow citizens. >> and at his first success in space wher...

New generation coming into power. it was not simply the soaring rhetoric of the inauguration that promised a lot of action and motion and directions but the idea that the youngest president ever elected was coming into office right after the oldest president, eisenhower at 70 was leaving office. there was a sense of activism, a sense of citizen involvement and a sense to be a change from the silent generation of the 50s. >> good evening my fellow citizen citizens. >> first great success in space...

President to the next, especially from different parties, can sometimes be prickly. in 1953, the transition from truman to eisenhower had been challenging. >> truman said eisenhower knows no more about politics than a pig knows about sunday. >> the relationship between the democrats and republicans were so cold that the eisenhower chose to sit in their car, instead of of accepting an invitation to come to the white house for a pre-inauguration public coffee. now eisenhower would be welcoming ano...

Parties, can sometimes be prickly. in 1953, the transition from truman to eisenhower had been challenging. >> truman said eisenhower knows no more about politics than a pig knows about sunday. >> the relationship between the democrats and republicans were so cold that the eisenhower chose to sit in their car, instead of of accepting an invitation to come to the white house for a pre-inauguration public coffee. now eisenhower would be welcoming another democrat, the young, vital, john f. kennedy ...

Prickly. in 1953, the transition from truman to eisenhower had been challenging. >> truman said eisenhower knows no more about politics than a pig knows about sunday. >> the relationship between the democrats and republicans were so cold that the eisenhower chose to sit in their car, instead of of accepting an invitation to come to the white house for a pre-inauguration public coffee. now eisenhower would be welcoming another democrat, the young, vital, john f. kennedy he hoped to set an example...

E-mail, it is eight years going back of persistent efforts by foreign governments and others to get into our government and private sector computer systems. look at the chinese hack of opm personnel records, millions of records of americans working for the federal government basically stolen by beijing. what did we do about that? i dont know. patiently nothing. >> nothing. yeah, nothing. youre right, this is a far greater and far sweeping problem that needs to be addressed. just the abysmal lack...

Been this brazen. if you go back to 1960, this has happened before. jfk winning by talking about a missile gap created by eisenhower and nixon but never created. it was a lie. they knew it was a lie but it was effective. it was nixon in 72, not 68 but 72 that talked about his secret peace plan with vietnam. of course three or four years later they asked about the secret peace plan and he said there was never a secret peace plan. politicians do lie. perhaps this is more jarring because it happens...

Letting the russians get ahead of us in missiles. >> it frightens people. its not true. but it frightens people, and its very effective in the campaign. >> i believe the soviet union is first in outer space. you, yourself, said to khrushchev, you may be ahead of us in rocket thrust but were ahead of you in color television. i think that missiles are more important than television. >> the missile gap was a total lie. we out missiled them at that time better than 100 to 1. if eisenhower came forwa...

>> it frightens people. its not true. but it frightens people and its very effective in the campaign. >> i believe the soviet union is first in outer space. you, yourself, said to khrushchev, you may be ahead of us in rocket thrust but were ahead of you in color television. i think that color television is not as important as rockets. >> the missile gap was a total lie. we out missiled them at that time better than 100 to 1. if eisenhower came forward and said this kid is not telling the truth...