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March 17th 1954, Senator John F. Kennedy's St. Patrick's Day speech in New York.

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He was six years away from becoming president but already building a national profile outside Massachusetts.

And on this date in 1954, Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy linked his Irish heritage with the unfolding Cold War.

Kennedy said,

There is an old Irish saying that on St. Patrick's Day in the spring there is a nest in every wood, a trout in every pool,

and a heifer calf in every cow paddock in Ireland.

For legend has it that for more than 1400 years no rain has fallen upon St. Patrick's Day throughout the length and breadth of green air.

No matter what may happen in the less favored realms of the earth outside the pale of the insula sanctorum which was eternally blessed by St. Patrick.

We are told that it was St. Patrick's wish that the weather should always be bright and fair on his special day, the 17th of March,

to allow the attendance of the faithful at the services of the church.

And that this request was one of seven requests made to the angel the Lord which were granted St. Patrick in order to bring happiness and hope to the Irish.

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