# 'The other things', Kennedy speech. Rice Stadium.

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**Created:** [August 26, 2012, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-other-things-kennedy-speech-rice-stadium/632728 "2012-08-26T16:16:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![pdunderhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4bbf92/32.png) [@pdunderhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pdunderhill)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2012, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-other-things-kennedy-speech-rice-stadium/632728/1 "2012-08-26T16:16:09Z")

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Hello good people, today seems as appropriate time as any to discuss President Kennedy’s ‘We choose to go to the Moon’ speech’  
Specifically, in itallics: ‘We choose to go to the Moon, we choose to go to the Moon, (app[lause), 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.’

‘The other things’?  
I realise that his administration would have have had a number of problems to address, but are there any specific issues he was talking about?  
By the by I always thought Gore Vidal was a little harsh on JFK but I suspect that’s a matter for another time.  
Peter

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**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2012, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-other-things-kennedy-speech-rice-stadium/632728/2 "2012-08-26T17:03:08Z")

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