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    "title": "Address at University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, 23 March 1962",
    "description": "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 President discusses the important role education plays in intellectual and political leadership, and addresses the recent decision between the United States and the Soviet Union to seek agreements on joint exploration of space. Materials in this folder include drafts by Special Counsel and speechwriter Theodore Sorensen, a press copy, and reading copies of the speech, in addition to a program for the Charter Day ceremony, a memorandum concerning humorist Finley Peter Dunne's representation of honorary degrees, and a commemorative booklet published by the University of California at Berkeley.",
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    "ocrText": "TCS DRAFT #2\n3/22/62\nThe Age of Hate or the Age of Knowledge?\nThis is a great anniversary of a great university. It is in fact a\ndouble anniversary. One hundred years ago this July Abraham Lincoln\nsigned the Morrill Act, establishing a nation-wide system of land-grant\ncolleges and universities. Six years later the University of California\nreceived its charter; and, from the moment of its foundation, its\nremarkable contributionsto state and nation have proven the wisdom of\nthe lang-grant college program. The first graduating class at Berkeley\nproduced, I am informed, a governor of California, two regents of the\nubiversity, a college professor, a clergyman, a state assemblyman and\nassorted lawyers, engineers and civil leaders all out of 12 graduates !\nToday, you are doing nearly as well. When I observe the men who\nsurround me in Washington -- when I reflect that the Secretary of State,\nthe Secretary of Defense, the Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission,\nthe Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and the Ambassador to\nIndia are all graduates or former students of this University -- I am\nforced to confront an uncomfortable truth, and so are you: that the New\nFrontier may well owe more to Berkeley than to Harvard.\nThis has been a week of momentous events around the world. The\nlong, painful struggle in Algeria drew nearer to a peaceful solution.\nBoth nuclear powers and neutrals labored at Geneva to renew the quest\nfor disarmament. The foreign ministers of the Soviet Union and the"
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