thank you, panel. it tomorrow on special report a high school gym teacher sues for reinstatement after suspension for sharing his religious beliefs at a school board meeting. thank you for watching special report, i am shannon bream in washington. please join me for fox news @ night at midnight eastern, we will be monitoring the results of that special congressional election in new mexico we told you earlier but for now it s time for speed 25 hosted by ben dominic s. it starts right now. ben: thank you, shannon and welcome to fox news prime time. yesterday i came to you to talk about the 1970s, how much they resemble our challenge today and how they are different. tonight i want to go back a little further in our history. 60 years ago last week in a rare midday joint session on capitol hill, president john f. kennedy set an incredible goal for the nation. he announced to the congress that i believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal before this decade i
safely to earth. no single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind or more important to the long-range explosion of space and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish. but in a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon. we make this judgment affirmatively, it will be an entire nation. all of us must work to put him there. ben: it s worth your time to watch the speech and not just to laugh at lbj working so hard to be in every frame. it seems like it comes not just from a different time, but from a different country. in his call for a project of immense national import president kennedy comes across as a leader of a free people committing us to a clear eyed task of achieving something that seemed utterly impossible. he has none of the lecturing attitude of philosopher king want to be barack obama, the bombast of a reality show star