Americans often reflect on Robert Frost's meditation on roads not taken. Today, we might reflect on speeches not given — and on truths unspoken.
One was from 1963, when President John F. Kennedy planned to speak of "ignorance and misinformation" and characterized Americans as "watchmen on the walls of world freedom." He was killed an hour before the luncheon at the Dallas Trade Mart, but the slain president's words speak to us today.
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