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    "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": "-8-\nmade of new metal alloys that have not yet even been developed\ncapable\nof standing heats and stresses several times that ever before experienced\nfitted together with a precision many times finer than the finest watch --\ncarrying all the equipment needed for propulsion, guidance, control,\ncommunications, food and survival on an untried mission to an unknown\ncelestial body -- and then return it safely to earth, re-entering the\natmosphere at speeds up to 25,000 miles an hour, causing heat about half\nthe temperature of the sun's own surface and do all this and do it right and\ndo\nit first before this decade is out then we must be bold and daring and\nunflinching.\nThere will, I can assure you, be hours of set-back and frustration.\nOthers will record milestones before we do. Danger will accompany each trip,\nas it has accompanied all feats of exploration.\nBut I believe we have the courage and the patience that are needed.\nWe have the intellectual and the financial resources we have the will and\nthe energy and the vision and fate has provided us with the challenge.\nWe cannot afford to shrink from it now. I do not believe you would\nhave us shrink from it. And that is why this Administration, with bi-partisan\nsupport, is pledged to make American space leadership more than a wish and\n1 t page\nmore than a goal. We are pledged to make it a reality.\nthe freid frink euflna Who died an hutos\nwall\nGeorge Mallory said he wanted to climb Mt. Everest \"Because it is there\".\nMy fellow citizens: outer space is there\nthe moon and the planets beyond are\nthere -- Niww hopes for knowledge and peace are there with them. So let us make\nas we set name\nready to sail on this unknown sea; and ask God for His blessing and help."
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