A Recipe for a Presidential Speech | The Kennedy Era
Whistlestop: Presidential History and Trivia
Slate Podcasts
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2017
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
This episode of Whistlestop travels to June 11, 1962 when President Kennedy receives an honorary degree from Yale University and delivers the commencement address.
Whistlestop is Slate's podcast about presidential history. Hosted by political correspondent and Political Gabfest panelist John Dickerson, each installment will revisit memorable (or even forgotten) moments from America's Presidential carnival.
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| 1:00.4 | hello and welcome to whistle stop series two a podcast about the presidency i'm john Hello and me of John Kennedy lately and yet not reminded me of John Kennedy at all. |
| 1:15.1 | This is not the total ball of relativism episode of Whistlestop, but a meditation on the ways |
| 1:20.6 | in which presidents communicate. |
| 1:22.7 | John Kennedy mastered the new medium of television in much the same way Donald Trump |
| 1:27.6 | has taken advantage of social media. |
| 1:30.1 | Kennedy used it to get around the traditional newsprint media. |
| 1:34.5 | Kennedy also tried to change the conventional wisdom of the way people thought |
| 1:39.1 | about certain policies in the same way Donald Trump does. |
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