President John F. Kennedy press conference concerning his Presidential Library

President Kennedy's forty-sixth news conference was held in the State Department Auditorium at 4 o'clock on Wednesday afternoon, December 12, 1962.

QUESTION: Mr. President, your speaking of historians induces me to ask you this: Most former Presidents have put their official papers in libraries in their home states where they are not readily available to scholars and historians who come here to work with the Library of Congress and other agencies here. Have you decided where to put yours and would you consider putting it in Washington?

THE PRESIDENT: Yes, I am going to put it in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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[kms624]

Bush won't have to worry about the location of his library - one shelf of picture books will fit just about anywhere.

[tirnanog20]

Imagine George Bush trying to answer a question like that. (The Kennedy library was eventually built, not in Cambridge-- Harvard rejected it-- but in a beautiful glittering glass structure at Columbus Point, facing the wild Atlantic. The ocean that Jack Kennedy loved)

[snoops71]

Speaking of Bush, I wonder why he didn't mention anything about the JFK assassination in his book. Being a former President, I figured he'd have some memories or insight to share.

[YouzTube99]

@sean2015: Oh yeah, JFK was a voracious reader and championed the Evelyn Wood speed reading course for his White House staff so they could assimilate information faster -- and presumably feed it back to him!

[sean2015]

@YouzTube99 Yes yes yes. Excellent point and one which I've thought of many times. If JFK had lived until the 1990s he would've been a strong supporter of the expansion of the Internet. Space and technology were core to his beliefs, and one of Kennedy's favorite hobbies was reading the newspaper. He would've loved the idea of being able to turn on his laptop and read any newspaper in the world with the click of a mouse.

[spm1021]

@kms624 (9-18-2017)

[marcostar57]

@spm1021 Honestly how can anyone with half-a brain compare JFK with Bush. But gosh, I'm sorry I didn't notify you personally of my utter disgust for Bush. Yes, he kept me "safe" for 7 years 4 months by illegally spying on me, violating my rights to free speech, waging illegal wars, torturing "enemy combatents, etc, etc, etc... (He failed to keep safe the 3,000 dead on 9-11-01)

[namgot]

It takes the audience exactly 1 second to get the joke.Tthey thought JFK was being serious.

[452485]

Does anyone have a bio on Mae Craig