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JFK became first president to hold live TV news conferences on this day in 1961. Watched by an estimated 65 million people, he discussed his first Executive Order, nuclear disarmament, and Cuba. He would go on to conduct 64 press conferences during his presidency, an average of one every 16 days! Watch the full news conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFde6u-OPj8 | JFK Library Foundation

“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, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win.” - John F. Kennedy, who was born on this day in 1917, speaking at Rice University September 12, 1962 offering his challenge to the nation to explore space. http