...President Kennedy, addressing the annual commencement at Yale University, observed : For the great enemy of truth is very often not the lie — deliberate, contrived,...dishonest — but the myth — persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Mr. HEMPHHX. Would the gentleman say there that that is the spirit of Camp David ? Mr....

...repetition of stale phrases to a new, difficult, but essential confrontation with reality. For the great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie — deliberate,...dishonest — but the myth — persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated...

...repetition of stale phrases to a new. difficult, but essential confrontation with reality. For the great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie — deliberate,...dishonest — but the myth — persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forehears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated...

...repetition of stale phrases to a new. difficult, but essential confrontation with reality. For the great enemy of the truth is very often not the* lie —...— -but the myth — persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated...

...circumstances. As President Kennedy so eloquently put it in his Yale commencement address: For the great enemy of the truth Is very often not the lie — deliberate, contrived, and We pray that the President's seeming commitment to expenditure reduction and fiscal responsibility...

...truth about them — our late, beloved President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. For he once said: "The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie — deliberate,...contrived, and dishonest — but the myth — persistent, perRtasive, and unrealistic." If we cannot persuade other men to disbelieve their own persistent, persuasive,...

...repetition of stale phrases to a new, difficult, but essential confrontation with reality. For the great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie — deliberate,...dishonest — but the myth — persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated...

...difficult, but essential confrontation with reality. For the great enemy of the truth is very often noc the lie — deliberate, contrived, and dishonest — but the myth — persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facu to a prefabricated...

...explanations? A remark by President Kennedy at the 1962 Yale commencement is appropriate here: "The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie— deliberate,...dishonest— but the MYTH, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated...

...us all by his words: "The great enemy of the truth," observed John F. Kennedy, "is very often not in the lie — deliberate, contrived, and dishonest — but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic." "Belief in myth," he said, "allows us to enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort...