“We are not afraid to entrust the American people
with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive
values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and
falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
―John F. Kennedy (1917-1963),
35th U.S. president, Remarks on the 20th Anniversary of the Voice of America,
U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Feb. 26, 1962. Image: In
1945, Jack Kennedy, 28, was a reporter for Hearst Newspapers, covering the post-WWII Potsdam Conference in a
bombed out Berlin.
• Editorial Comment: People were smarter then. Presidents, too.
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