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Thank you We sneak in and here's your shmoop du

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jour brought to you by the united nations Except for

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belarus we're not sure what you did to take them

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All right check out this past it Do that world

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simon invitation of nation You not here present Well that

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is being of feet both sides here Aswell in your

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hand my fellas haven't down trump Can we forge an

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alliance with long histories So my fellow americans thank you

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jeff All right president kennedy refers to the united nations

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in the first paragraph Primarily tio what And hear the

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potential answers annoy opponents deflect highland All right well here's

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the scenario us is in a nuclear arms race with

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the soviet union You've just been elected president And now

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you get to give a speech to the entire country

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in the whole world's gonna be listening in an attempt

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to calm their nerves so that mass hysteria doesn't spread

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like wildfire Yeah uh good luck with that And yet

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that was exactly the situation john f kennedy was faced

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with when it came time to deliver his inaugural address

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Of course he killed it with a mic drop at

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the end Less than ten words In his speech he

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mentions the united nations Why the shout out and why

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so immediately Well let's take a gander at our options

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shall we First we've got a to annoy opponents in

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congress who undermined the united nations Well hopefully the us

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hadn't just elected a president Who's super Objective was to

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annoy that doesn't seem like a really powerful choice In

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fact kennedy was hardly interested in picking on anyone besides

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congress back then wasn't what it is today It wasn't

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always one harsh word away from an all out fight

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Yes he did guys they're all coming What about b

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to deflect criticism facing the united states for his role

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in foreign wars Well this also seems like a negative

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way to kick things off he's deflecting criticism right off

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the bat I don't think so great leader wants to

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start off on a positive note so will impeach ocean

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b see toe highlight his own accomplishments is a senator

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before he was president How braggadocious do you think this

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guy wass already gotten the job Generally people don't start

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bombarding their co workers with their fast list of accomplishments

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Their first day leaves us with d show that america's

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goal is toe work with the international community Heck yeah

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what better way to make the country feel more at

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ease than to make it clear immediately that it's not

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alone any new just the right button A push And 00:02:36.163 --> [endTime] fortunately it wasn't the red Yeah

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