President Kennedy's inauguration was a memorable day for many Americans: a new president, a new era, a reading by the distinguished poet Robert Frost, and an inaugural address that is still remembered by the many who were there or watched it on television. The phrase Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country resonated with the American people. Thurston Clark, who has
researched the background of that speech in the presidential archives, tells how it was put together, and by whom.
