FOUR DAYS The Historical Record of the Death of President Kennedy Hardcover 1964.

Compiled by United Press International and American Heritage Magazine.

What John F. Kennedy left us was most of all an attitude. To put it in the simplest terms, he looked ahead. He knew no more than anyone else what the future was going to be like, but he did know that that was where we ought to be looking. Only to a limited extent are we prisoners of the past. The future sets us free. It is our escape hatch. We can shape it to our liking, and we had better start thinking about how we would like it.

It was time for us to take that attitude, because we thought we were growing old. We had lived through hard experiences and we were tired, and out of our weariness came caution, suspicion, and the crippling desire to play it safe. We became so worried about what we had to lose that we never began to think about what was still to be gained, and sometimes it looked as if we were becoming a nation of fuddy-duddies. The world was moving faster than ever before and we were beginning to regret that it was moving at all because we were afraid where it might take us.

But President Kennedy personified youth and vigor- and perhaps it was symbolic that both his friends and his foes picked up his Boston accent and began to say "vigah.' He went about hatless, he like to mingle with crowds and shake the hands of all and sundry, for recreation he played touch football, and for rest he sat in an old-fashioned rocking chair as if in sly mockery of his own exuberance. He seemed to think that things like music and painting and literature were essential parts of American life and that it was worthwhile to know what the musicians and artists and writers were doing. Whatever he did was done with zest, as if youth were for the first time touching life and finding it exciting. 

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