Address at University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, 23 March 1962
This file contains materials collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning President Kennedy's address at the University of California's 94th Charter Day held at Memorial Stadium at the school's Berkeley campus. In his speech the...
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3/22/62
The Age of Hate or the Age of Knowledge?
This is a great anniversary of a great university. It is in fact a
double anniversary. One hundred years ago this July Abraham Lincoln
signed the Morrill Act, establishing a nation-wide system of land-grant
colleges and universities. Six years later the University of California
received its charter; and, from the moment of its foundation, its
remarkable contributionsto state and nation have proven the wisdom of
the lang-grant college program. The first graduating class at Berkeley
produced, I am informed, a governor of California, two regents of the
ubiversity, a college professor, a clergyman, a state assemblyman and
assorted lawyers, engineers and civil leaders all out of 12 graduates !
Today, you are doing nearly as well. When I observe the men who
surround me in Washington -- when I reflect that the Secretary of State,
the Secretary of Defense, the Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission,
the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and the Ambassador to
India are all graduates or former students of this University -- I am
forced to confront an uncomfortable truth, and so are you: that the New
Frontier may well owe more to Berkeley than to Harvard.
This has been a week of momentous events around the world. The
long, painful struggle in Algeria drew nearer to a peaceful solution.
Both nuclear powers and neutrals labored at Geneva to renew the quest
for disarmament. The foreign ministers of the Soviet Union and the
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