Skye heard the short announcement. The month of November 2023 marks the 60th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy to commemorate this pivotal event in American history,

we're playing an excerpt from the show This American President featuring House Richard Lim

that focuses on this topic. You can learn more about Kennedy's 1963 Texas

visit re-election campaign assassination and legacy with this excerpt. You can find more episodes of this American

president on the podcast player of your choice and find all sorts of great episodes

about US presidents across American history. Hope you enjoy.

By the fall of 1963, Kennedy began focusing more on his upcoming re-election campaign. A few days after the South Vietnamese coup,

the Republican governor of New York, Nelson Rockefeller,

announced that he was a candidate for the Republican nomination.

Arizona Republican Senator Barry Goldwater had yet to announce,

but he was widely expected to run.

He and Kennedy were friends and old colleagues from the Senate.

Some accounts indicate that the two looked forward to running against each other

if Goldwater could get the nomination.

Kennedy felt that it was going to be a tough race.

He told his aides that he doubted whether he could make any inroads into the states he lost in 1960,

saying, quote, let's quit on Kansas and Nebraska.

North Dakota?

That's impossible.

He added, quote, what is it we have to sell them?

We hope to sell them prosperity.

But for the average guy, prosperity is nil.

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