RAJ, after visiting his father at the Jarvis Estate near San Diego, stood at the steps of the capitol in Sacramento where four years earlier he had announced his candidacy for president. Surrounding by the press and his supporters, the President began his speech...
It has been both a pleasure and an honour to serve the American people as President these past four years, and I hope that I have acted in that position admirably. Whilst I have been unable, due to partisan politics, to pass all of my goals in the economy, a much needed education reform now ensures that all children can get the education they deserve; no longer does a child, bright and eager to learn, have to make do with a substandard schooling! New public, private, and charter schools are opening their doors, and the American commitment to quality education has never been stronger!
These past four years have seen Soviet-American relations thaw, and despite the ramblings of Congressman Lovey, these peaceful have been beneficial, not only to the United States, but to the entire world. Should the American government now change course, and irrevocably harm our relationship with the Soviets falter, and bring the entire globe closer to conflict? This kind of brinkmanship is both extremely dangerous, and incredibly short-sighted!
Lastly, and to my, and my father's, great pleasure, the most abominable and contemptible practice of segregation has been challenged successfully in Courts. This puts America on step closer to achieving equality, and forever dispelling the last, putrid remnants of antebellum slavery. No enemy of America can use segregation as a battle cry, as an excuse to attack us, to hate us!
However, our work is not yet done; while education has become available to almost every American, we can do so much more; let us show the technical prowess of American engineers, the brilliance of our scientists, and the great wealth of our nation in conquering that final frontier, outer space! As of this moment, this is a new, largely untested field; neither the United States and Soviet Union has much in the way of an advantage, technologically American fortitude and perseverance, however, will allow us to exemplify American strength and prestige.
This shall not be an easy task, but as William Bradford said of the founding of the Plymouth Bay Colony, all great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties, and both must be enterprised and overcome with answerable courage. The exploration of space will soon begin, whether we join in it or not, and it is one of the great adventures of all time, and no nation which expects to be the leader of other nations can expect to stay behind in the race for space.
Our forefathers made certain that this country rode the first waves of the industrial revolutions, the first waves of modern invention, and the first wave of nuclear power, and this generation does not intend to founder in the backwash of the coming age of space. We mean to be a part of it--we mean to lead it. For the eyes of the world now, like those of first, blinking of a newborn child, look into space, to the moon and to the planets beyond, and the American people must now vow that we shall not see it governed by a hostile flag of conquest, but by a banner of freedom and peace. We must vow that we shall not see space filled with weapons of mass destruction, but with instruments of knowledge and understanding.
Yet the vows of this Nation can only be fulfilled if we in this Nation are first, and, therefore, we intend to be first. In short, our leadership in science and in industry, our hopes for peace and security, our obligations to ourselves as well as others, all require us to make this effort, to solve these mysteries, to solve them for the good of all men, and to become the world's leading space-faring nation.
We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon by the next decade, not because it is easy, but because it is hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win.
Turning our eyes back to Earth, our relations with the Soviets have improved drastically since their nadir at the end of the last decade; the American people cannot, and will not, be the aggressors in any war, nor will we create an avenue for attack. The United States will continue to promote peace abroad, and will ensure that any attack on American soil will be repelled and the instigators of such a conflict will pay. The American people could rest assured knowing that the prospect of nuclear war is incredibly unlikely, and if we continue to reach out to the Soviets, we can ensure that one never happens.
At home, segregation is being swept away by the tide of progress and liberty; we as a nation, must refute this vile and injurious policy forevermore; we are all Americans, regardless of the colour of our skin, of the faith in our hearts, or of the political beliefs; we are a nation of free men, and America must first ensure that ever citizen is treated with dignity and fairness under the law.
We must go forth, together, to ensure that this new decade will be one of peace and prosperity, not one of war and destitution; the American Nation, so determined to advance the state of humanity, to extol the principles of peace and liberty, and conceived in the notion of equality and freedom to all men, must ensure that. For these past four years, I have tried to so to the best of my ability; if the American people will have me, I will work to promote American interests and defend our liberties.
To that end, I announce my candidacy for President of the United States under the Republican banner!
The President heads down the stairs, shaking hands of supporters, answering some questions of journalists, all to the chanting of "RAJ, All the Way"
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