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First thing we're going to talk about
is a little bit about the times.

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In the early 1960s.

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President Kennedy won a very,
very close election with Vice President

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Richard Nixon winning by about 6,000 votes
in the state of Illinois.

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During the early parts of his presidency,
he was challenged by a couple of issues.

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There was the Cuban Missile crisis.

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There was.

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There was also race.

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Race riots
in various parts of the country.

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And I think that the the two major
challenges of his presidency, of his early

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presidency, was the Cold War between
the Soviet Union and the United States.

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And also race relations
in between the races in the United States.

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A couple of things that happened in 1963,
particularly

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Martin Luther King gives his
I Have a Dream speech

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at the Lincoln Memorial
in Washington, D.C.

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President Kennedy
also gives a very famous speech.

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It was called the Ich bin ein Berliner
speech that was given

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in West Berlin in 1963.

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Some additional things that happened
that year.

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Well, Pope John Paul,
the 23rd, was killed.

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They opened up a hotline
between the Soviet Union

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and the United States,
and gas was $0.29 a gallon.