JFK BEGINS CONSERVATION TOUR
Duluth, Minnesota (JFK+50) On September 24, 1963, President John F. Kennedy traveled to Milford, Pennsylvania, Ashland, Wisconsin, and Duluth, Minnesota to begin a five day conservation tour of the United States.
The President's first stop was Milford where he spoke at the Pinchot Institute for Conservation Studies.JFK said..."I don't think many Americans can point to such a distinguished record as can Gifford Pinchot* and this institute...
(We) begin a journey...across the U.S. to see what can be done to mobilize the attention of this country so we in the 1960's can do our task in preparing America for all the generations which are still yet to come."
From Pennsylvania, JFK traveled to Ashland where he spoke at the airport. He said...
" I am...the 2nd President...to spend the night in Ashland. Calvin Coolidge was here for some weeks...but he never said a word; and I was here for one night (during the campaign) and spoke all the time."
JFK made his final appearance of the day at the University of Minnesota in Duluth where he spoke to the delegates to the Northern Great Lakes Region Land and People Conference. The President said...
"We must...decide on those policies which will help put our people to work, which will prevent the kind of recession...we had at the end of the fifties. So we are here today to determine what we can do to maintain our domestic rise, to make sure that it is shared by the widest possible number of our people..."
*Gifford Pinchot (1865-1946), the 1st Chief of the US Forest Service and twice governor of Pennsylvania, was born in Simsbury, Connecticut and graduated from Yale University. He became known for reforming the management and development of the Nation's reserves by planned use and renewal.
TR and Gifford Pinchot (1907)
National Archives/Library of Congress
Duluth, Minnesota (JFK+50) On September 24, 1963, President John F. Kennedy traveled to Milford, Pennsylvania, Ashland, Wisconsin, and Duluth, Minnesota to begin a five day conservation tour of the United States.
The President's first stop was Milford where he spoke at the Pinchot Institute for Conservation Studies.JFK said..."I don't think many Americans can point to such a distinguished record as can Gifford Pinchot* and this institute...
(We) begin a journey...across the U.S. to see what can be done to mobilize the attention of this country so we in the 1960's can do our task in preparing America for all the generations which are still yet to come."
From Pennsylvania, JFK traveled to Ashland where he spoke at the airport. He said...
" I am...the 2nd President...to spend the night in Ashland. Calvin Coolidge was here for some weeks...but he never said a word; and I was here for one night (during the campaign) and spoke all the time."
JFK made his final appearance of the day at the University of Minnesota in Duluth where he spoke to the delegates to the Northern Great Lakes Region Land and People Conference. The President said...
"We must...decide on those policies which will help put our people to work, which will prevent the kind of recession...we had at the end of the fifties. So we are here today to determine what we can do to maintain our domestic rise, to make sure that it is shared by the widest possible number of our people..."
*Gifford Pinchot (1865-1946), the 1st Chief of the US Forest Service and twice governor of Pennsylvania, was born in Simsbury, Connecticut and graduated from Yale University. He became known for reforming the management and development of the Nation's reserves by planned use and renewal.
TR and Gifford Pinchot (1907)
National Archives/Library of Congress
