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JFK at Hollins College, Roanoke, Virginia
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Presidential candidate John F. Kennedy came to Roanoke for a campaign speech in 1960.
In this clip of the speech, chided his Republican opponent Richard Nixon for his
reliance on "body guards" to escort him through the state New York. Kennedy scoffed at
Nixon's Republican supporters who accompanied to him to New York and campaigned on his
behalf, including Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., Nelson Rockefeller, and President Eisenhower.
Kennedy said, "the people of Virginia and the people of the United States must decide"
whether a person who dodged a fifth television debate, or who needed an "escort guard"
in New York, was fit to lead the people of the United States. Kennedy's rhetoric of
virility and strength was meant to make Nixon appear weak, too weak to stand up to the
Soviets. [The full speech is WDBJ clip number 03_14]
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