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I.M. Pei's JFK Library, in Poetry, Prose, and Meeting Minutes

I.M. Pei's JFK Library, in Poetry, Prose, and Meeting Minutes Phillip Harrington. John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and Kennedy family members on the Wianno Senior sloop Victura at Hyannis Port, 1959. 86 https://doi.org/10.1162/grey_a_00317 I.M. Pei’s JFK Library, in Poetry, Prose, and Meeting Minutes EDWARD EIGEN The moderate accomplishment of I.M. Pei’s design for the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum is by no means diminished by the suggestion that the most interesting thing about it, to borrow the words of Senator Edward M. Kennedy, is that “this [building] campaign came to an end.” The senti- ment is from the senator’s “The Dream Shall Never Die” speech, a crowning but far from valedictory oratorical perfor- mance delivered at the Democratic National Convention on August 12, 1980, the day after his concession of the presiden- tial nomination to incumbent Jimmy Carter. Preparing to leave the convention stage and the nominating contest, while at the same time preparing for the next contest to come, fortified by challenges already met, Kennedy delivered the following words in his distinctive Boston-accented cadence: And someday, long after this convention, long after the signs come down, and the crowds stop cheering, and the bands stop playing, may it be said of our campaign that http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Grey Room MIT Press

I.M. Pei's JFK Library, in Poetry, Prose, and Meeting Minutes

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Phillip Harrington. John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and Kennedy family members on the Wianno Senior sloop Victura at Hyannis Port, 1959. 86 https://doi.org/10.1162/grey_a_00317 I.M. Pei’s JFK Library, in Poetry, Prose, and Meeting Minutes EDWARD EIGEN The moderate accomplishment of I.M. Pei’s design for the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum is by no means diminished by the suggestion that the most interesting thing about it, to borrow the words of Senator Edward M. Kennedy, is that “this [building] campaign came to an end.” The senti- ment is from the senator’s “The Dream Shall Never Die” speech, a crowning but far from valedictory oratorical perfor- mance delivered at the Democratic National Convention on August 12, 1980, the day after his concession of the presiden- tial nomination to incumbent Jimmy Carter. Preparing to leave the convention stage and the nominating contest, while at the same time preparing for the next contest to come, fortified by challenges already met, Kennedy delivered the following words in his distinctive Boston-accented cadence: And someday, long after this convention, long after the signs come down, and the crowds stop cheering, and the bands stop playing, may it be said of our campaign that

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