covered in newspapers, and kennedy gave a first speech that was called a state of the union, although he was only in office five days, 1961, to congress. then came the bay of pigs. then came the soviet union surpassing the soviet union sur united states in the space race. kennedy thought he was in bad shape. he went back to congress 25th of may and gave what he called a second state of the union address. he did that announcing this little item which was that the united states would land someone on the moon before the end of the decade. that got all the attention, gave an enormous second wind to his administration. do you think they can change the subject, ambassador mcfaul? they ve got to talk about ukraine. how does he turn that into something that rallies america? well, i do think you can t ignore this giant crisis, this