In a 1963 eulogy for Robert Frost, John F. Kennedy described poetry as "the means of saving power from itself."
As New England’s textile-mill business and other industries fled to the low-wage South, a freshman senator from Massachusetts suggested a solution.
"A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers"
“The southward migration of industry from New England has too frequently taken place for causes other than normal competition and natural advantages.”