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    "title": "Press copy, Inaugural address of President John F. Kennedy, 20 January 1961",
    "description": "This item is a press copy of President John F. Kennedy's inaugural address in Washington D.C. In his speech, President Kennedy urges American citizens to participate in public service and \"ask not what your country can do for you- ask what you can do for your country.\"",
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    "ocrText": "RELEASE 12 NOON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1961\nTO ALL NEWSPAPERS, RADIO AND TV STATIONS\nOFFICE OF THE WHITEHHUSE PRESS SECRETARY\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nINAUGURAL ADDRESS\nof\nPRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY\nAS ACTUALLY DELIVERED\nVice President Johnoon, Mr. Speaker, Mr. Chief Justice, President\nEisenhower, Vice President Nixon, President Truman, Reverend Clergy,\nFellow Citizens:\nWe observe today not a victory of party but a celebration of freedom --\nsymbolizing an end as well as a beginning -- signifying renewal as well\nas change. For I have sworn before you and Almighty God the same\nsolemn oath our forebears prescribed nearly a century and three quarters\nago.\nThe world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the\npower to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life.\nAnd yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are\nstill at issue around the globe the belief that the rights of man come not\nfrom the generosity of the state but from the hand of God.\nWe .dare not forget today that we are the heirs of that first revolution. Let\nthe word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that\nthe torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans born in this\ncentury, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of\nour ancient heritage and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing\nof those human rights towwich this nation has always been committed, and\nto which we are committed today at home and around the world.\nLet every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay\nany price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose\nany foe to assure.the survival and the success of liberty.\nThis much we pledge and more.\nTo those old allies whose cultural and spiritual origins we share, we pledge\nthe loyalty of faithful friends. United, there is little we cannot do in a host\nof cooperative ventures. Divided, there is little we can do -- for we dare\nnot meet a powerful challenge at odds and split asunder.\nTo those new states whom we welcome to the ranks of the free, we pledge\nour word that one form of colonial control shall not have passed away merefy\nto be replaced by a far more iron tyranny. We shall not always expect to\nfind them supporting our view. But we shall always hope to find them\nstrongly supporting their own freedom and to remember that, in the past,\nthose who foolishly scught power by riding-the back ofthe-tigerended\nup inside.\nmore\n(OVER)\n3"
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