> when i heard it, two members of the world war ii generation burst into tears. it said to me, these were powerful words. i was only 14. i thought words that could make adults that fought in world war ii cry, they had to be powerful words. that stayed with me all my life, that image. >> i love the line in your book where you said a young woman joined the peace corps early on -- i joined it in the '60s, she said no one ever asked me before. Get Live News Updates Every Minute from vimarsana.com Curated from 23000 News Agencies.">
> when i heard it, two members of the world war ii generation burst into tears. it said to me, these were powerful words. i was only 14. i thought words that could make adults that fought in world war ii cry, they had to be powerful words. that stayed with me all my life, that image. >> i love the line in your book where you said a young woman joined the peace corps early on -- i joined it in the '60s, she said no one ever asked me before. Get Live News Updates Every Minute from vimarsana.com Curated from 23000 News Agencies." property="og:description">
> when i heard it, two members of the world war ii generation burst into tears. it said to me, these were powerful words. i was only 14. i thought words that could make adults that fought in world war ii cry, they had to be powerful words. that stayed with me all my life, that image. >> i love the line in your book where you said a young woman joined the peace corps early on -- i joined it in the '60s, she said no one ever asked me before. Get Live News Updates Every Minute from vimarsana.com Curated from 23000 News Agencies.">
i think it was one of the top four or five. here he is, great times speech writer and thurston clark who has written a great book "ask not -- the inauguration of john f. kennedy and the speech that changed america." you put all this rich background in the book. when you first heard it, what did it say to you, because i think it had a different reaction immediately than the one that developed over time. your thoughts when your first heard it. >> when i heard it, two members of the world war ii generation burst into tears. it said to me, these were powerful words. i was only 14. i thought words that could make adults that fought in world war ii cry, they had to be powerful words. that stayed with me all my life, that image. >> i love the line in your book where you said a young woman joined the peace corps early on -- i joined it in the '60s, she said no one ever asked me before.