Strategically to share his values. It was also the golden age of photographer in america and that is why this subject is of interest to us at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and hopefully you. Here at the museum we focus on telling the stories of the American Experience. From folk art to photographer as well as painting and sculpture and skracrafts and media arts. Our exhibition, john f. Kennedys life and times which you can view on the second floor in the graphic arts gallery is a premier event among many organized by the kennedy president ial library in this centennial year. I am stephanie stebich, the director of the american smithsonian art museum. Saam is what we call ourselves for short. We have assembled a group of historians and scholars debating the Kennedy Administration and its legacy. Many of you likely remember the Kennedy Administration and the arc of history. We also have several members of congress in the room with us and i want to pause for a moment and acknowledge
Cspan3 continues next with the presidency focusing on the legacy of john f. Kennedy. The Smithsonian American Art Museum hosted this 90 minute event. Good evening. Did you know that john f. Kennedy was the most photographed leader of his day . This may not surprise you since he used photography strategically to share his values and his vision for america. It was also the golden age of photography in america and that is why this subject is of interest to us at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and hopefully you. Here at the museum we focus on telling the stories of the American Experience from folk art to photography as well as painting and sculpture and crafts and media arts. Our exhibition, american visionary, john f. Kennedys life and times, which you can view on the second floor in the graphic arts gallery is a premier event among many organized by the kennedy president ial library in this centennial year. I am stephanie stevish, the director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum
About technology at the time and he said by coming together, we can go to the moon, bring a man there and bring him back safely by the end of the decade. John kennedy didnt live to see it we did do that. Keep in mind, that first capsule that went up had less power than your viewers iphones or smartphones do today. So we can with big ideas come together and solve big problems but only going to work if we all put our effort into it. Host final question how is the library, the foundation reflect og this day on the john f. Kennedy centennial . Guest weve had a multi day celebration. Where saturday we honesored peace corp and president kennedys legacy, yesterday nasa with an astronaut and space suit engineer. Today were doing navy flyover, new exhibit and 3 p. M. , again, navy flag within a cape for a thousand people fyour viewers are in boston, we encourage you to come by today or any time in the next year to see the new exhibit. Host steven rothstein, on this what would have been the 100t
Cannot imagine john f. Kennedy on his 100th birthday. He will be forever enshrined as a man in his 40s. Had he lived, he would have been 100 today. How should he be remembered . Guest i think did he so much in his short life, and many of his ideas are just as relevant today. His way of governing through inclusion, his big ideas of service, whether it be the peace corps or other things, his big ideas of innovation, the race to the moon, so many of what he was fighting for in the 1960s are important to what were looking at in 2017. Host let me share with our audience one of the iconic inaugural speeches from january 1961, senator john kennedy was sworn in as president of the united states. Now the trumpet summons us again. Not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need, not as a call to battle, though in battle we are, but a call to bear the burden of a long Twilight Struggle year in and year out. Rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation, a struggle against the common enemies of man, t
Cannot imagine john f. Kennedy on his 100th birthday. He will be forever enshrined as a man in his 40s. Had he lived, he would have been 100 today. How should he be remembered . Guest i think did he so much in his short life, and many of his ideas are just as relevant today. His way of governing through inclusion, his big ideas of service, whether it be the peace corps or other things, his big ideas of innovation, the race to the moon, so many of what he was fighting for in the 1960s are important to what were looking at in 2017. Host let me share with our audience one of the iconic inaugural speeches from january 1961, senator john kennedy was sworn in as president of the united states. Now the trumpet summons us again. Not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need, not as a call to battle, though in battle we are, but a call to bear the burden of a long Twilight Struggle year in and year out. Rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation, a struggle against the common enemies of man, t