He was the youngest man elected President; he was the youngest to die.
- Before his death, he laid plans for a massive assault on persisting pockets of privation and poverty.
- Calling for new civil rights legislation. His vision of America extended to the quality of the national culture and the central role of the arts in a vital society.
- He wished America to resume its old mission as the first nation dedicated to the revolution of human rights.
- His goal of "a world of law and free choice, banishing the world of war and coercion."
Let live, let die, study the past!