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    "title": "Address at Rice University, Houston, Texas, 12 September 1962",
    "description": "This folder contains materials collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning President Kennedy's remarks at the Rice University Stadium in Houston, Texas concerning the nation's efforts in space exploration. In his speech the President discusses the necessity for the United States to become an international leader in space exploration, and famously states, \"We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.\" Materials in this folder include a draft by Special Counsel and speechwriter Theodore Sorensen, press copies, and a reading copy of the speech. Of note are several items with handwritten notations by the President.",
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    "ocrText": "-7-\nat a rate of $1 billion a year from this apace center alone.\nTo be sure all this costs us money. This year's space budget\nisi three times what is was on January of 1961. And it is greater than the\nspace budget of the 8 previous years combined. That budget now stands\n5.4\nat\n$ billion a year -- a staggering sum, although somewhat less than what\nthis Nation spends each year on cigars and cigarettes. Space expenditures,\nSOON\nmore Than\nmoreover, will A rise from 40F per person per week ton 50c per man, woman\nand child.\nFor we have given this program a high national priority -- we\nare behind, and we have far to go before we are ahead. That money, I pledge\nis Bein:\nyou, willube spent as wisely as possible by the ablest men I could find. I\nhave taken this trip to help ascertain whether we are doing all that needs to\ndone,\nbe andu, and not doing that which need not be done. We shall invest only\nwhen the anticipated return is greater than the outlay. We cannot afford\nduplication or waste but neither can we afford to lag timidly and pre out\nbehind.\nI realize that this is, in some measure, an act of faith and vision.\nFor we do not now know what range of benefits awaits us what new\nmineral and energy sources may be tapped on these planets or to what\nmilitary uses the cold reaches of space may someday by someone be put.\nBut nations without vision have been known to perish. And inventions and\ninvestments which seemed fruitless to some have been known to change the\ncourse of men and nations.\n240 Thousand\nIf we are, my fellow citizens, to send to the moon, miles\nmore THAN\naway from the control station here in Houston, a giant rocket, 300 feet high --\nA"
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