#OnThisDay in 1961, John F. Kennedy became the 35th President of the United States. His most famous speech, inspiring a nation, was his inaugural address. He closed his speech with a call to endurance from Romans 12:12: “Year in and year out, ‘rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation’—a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease and war itself!" | Museum of the Bible