On July 4, 1962, President John F. Kennedy spoke in front of Independence Hall, where he discussed the dependence of the federal and state governments on each other for the "successful operation of our unique and happy form of government;" the interdependence of the U.S. and Europe in global affairs; and the enduring legacies of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
In closing, he said:
“Today, 186 years later, that Declaration whose yellowing parchment and fading, almost illegible lines I saw in the past week in the National Archives in Washington is still a revolutionary document. To read it today is to hear a trumpet call. For that Declaration unleashed not merely a revolution against the British, but a revolution in human affairs. Its authors were highly conscious of its worldwide implications. And George Washington declared that liberty and self-government everywhere were, in his words, ‘finally staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.’”
📸 : ST-C12-3-62. President John F. Kennedy delivers an address before members of the National Governors’ Conference and others as part of Independence Day Celebrations at Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. July 4, 1962. Photo by Cecil Stoughton. White House Photographs. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston.
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