Optimism and the Cancer Moonshot Initiative

we can choose to move forward with unity, hope, and optimism.

On the sixtieth anniversary of President John F Kennedy's announcement that the USA would go to the moon, President Joe Biden spoke at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum on The Cancer Moonshot.

 

"On this day in 1962, America was facing an inflection point — one of those times that changes everything, from the day before to the day after. The shadow of world wars cast over a Cold War. The march on civil rights urgent yet uncertain.  And against all of that and more, America faced a choice: to move forward or to move backwards; to build the future or obsess about the past; to be a nation of unity and hope and optimism, or a nation of division, violence, and hatred. At this inflection point, President Kennedy made a choice for the nation, thank God. On this day in 1962, at Rice University in Houston, he spoke about America’s possibilities...

Now, in our time, on the 60th anniversary of his clarion call, we face another inflection point. And together, we can choose to move forward with unity, hope, and optimism.  And I believe we can usher in the same unwillingness to postpone, the same national purpose that will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills to end cancer as we know it and even cure cancers once and for all.  I give you my word as a Biden: This Cancer Moonshot is one of the reasons why I ran for President. It’s part of my Unity Agenda that I laid out in my State of the Union Address to rally the American people to work together."

 

 

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