Space exploration was an important part of John Kennedy’s New Frontier.The early success of the Mercury manned space missions under Kennedy set the stage for the moon landing later in the decade and remains one of his signature achievements.Kathleen Kennedy Townsend is Robert Kennedy’s eldest child and President Kennedy’s niece.“It was not about what I can do for you. It was, you should do this because it is tough, it is difficult,""We are going to go to the moon because it is hard and it will take all our best energies. But that will make us a better people when we do that.One of the most vexing issues John Kennedy faced while in office was civil rights. A few months before he died, Kennedy made a fresh appeal for action to Congress.“We are confronted primarily with a moral issue. It is old as the scriptures and as clear as the American Constitution.The heart of the question is whether all Americans are going to be afforded equal rights and equal opportunities," he said.“We do not know what greatness he could have come to," said Harris Wofford, who advised President Kennedy on civil rights."We lost somebody who was on the way toward greatness, in my opinion, at a time we needed that."
