Jeffrey Sachs on John F. Kennedy and his Quest For Peace

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Filmed at the Royal Institution of Great Britain on 16th July 2013.
As tensions mount between the USA and Russia over Syria, Iran and the Snowden case, the economist Jeffrey Sachs came to Intelligence Squared to examine how leadership lessons from the past might be applied to intractable international problems today.
November 2013 saw the 50th anniversary of the assassination of John Kennedy, the American president perhaps best remembered for the hope that he inspired. And on July 16th Sachs discussed the themes of his new book, 'To Move the World', in which he analyses JFK's rhetoric of peace and explains how it began a process that led to détente and eventually to the end of the Cold War. How was it that only 8 months after the Cuban missile crisis had brought the world to the brink of self-destruction Kennedy could reach out to the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev and persuade him that they shared the same aims and interests? How at such a time of external peril could he dare to ask the American people to look inward and examine their own attitudes towards the Soviet Union?
Sachs focused on the last year of Kennedy's life, examining his relationship with Khrushchev and the support he was given in his peace initiative by British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. In the back of JFK's mind played the memory of his father Joe Kennedy's humiliation and dashed political ambitions brought about by his defence of Neville Chamberlain's appeasement of Hitler. How could the younger Kennedy marry his admiration for the warlike Churchill with his desire for peace? How could he apply the complex lessons of the past to the challenges of the present? Our leaders today face the same conflicting tugs: the urge to avert war and the desire to stand up to cruel aggressors. Where, when we need him, is the John Kennedy of the 21st century?

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  • Every American should hear this speech, especially those who lead the American government.

    @gabriellee4835@gabriellee4835 Жыл бұрын
    • Every human being should listen to this. I speak as an Australian.

      @ge12mma345ge12@ge12mma345ge1211 ай бұрын
  • What’s poignant lecture! It’s so moving and I wish we could have a leader like this in the West today!

    @rp3875@rp3875 Жыл бұрын
  • Jeffrey Sachs knows and understands so much of US and world history and presents with such clarity and humanity that I feel this is the most important lesson I've ever heard. I wish everyone could hear him speak. And his near-final comment about morality -- and the lack of morality in our culture at this time -- is so deeply true. I'm so grateful for this presentation. I will share the link with many others. Suzanne Carlson, Greenfield MA

    @suzannecarlson9244@suzannecarlson9244 Жыл бұрын
    • It's pointless to share. People don't care. Too propagandized and/or stupid.

      @MariaMaltseva@MariaMaltseva8 ай бұрын
  • A very moving talk-for me and, I think, for Prof. Sachs as well. The good professor has become a voice of reason and agent of peace in his own right these past several years. He's a man of monumental moral and physical courage. His willingness to speak truth to power in shining a light on the path toward peace in Ukraine, and the US's proxie war against Russia, has been both inspiring and heartening for me and so many more like me. We owe him a debt of gratitude for his selfless work in service of world peace. Thank you Dr. Sachs

    @danstewart2770@danstewart27709 ай бұрын
  • They should play this in every US high school so the Americans can finally see for themselves what the world sees!

    @rebeccasatherley4727@rebeccasatherley47275 жыл бұрын
  • This man is so important, if I was religious I would pray for him, and thank god for him. Why can't we have someone like him in charge?

    @richkeenan7832@richkeenan7832 Жыл бұрын
  • How relevant this is still for today’s geopolitical challenges. The Q&A session is also full of profound insights. Jeffery S. impresses me time and time again.

    @lukew.9870@lukew.9870 Жыл бұрын
  • Professor Jeff Sachs has such a remarkable memory of the various details, names of people, chronology of events. He gave his whole lecture with few notes. He should be awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace.

    @htlow3598@htlow3598 Жыл бұрын
    • A noble prize for peace for remembering dates? How d'you work than one out?

      @magicroundabout5081@magicroundabout5081 Жыл бұрын
    • @@magicroundabout5081 When you have war criminals in the white house repeatedly receiving Nobel Peace Prize, you will realize that winning it for having a good memory and reciting it in a speech to promote peace is still far more deserving for the award

      @sz8670@sz86709 ай бұрын
    • OBAMA RECEIVED WITH OUT SPEECH 🤣

      @elladowling2005@elladowling20059 ай бұрын
  • Nothing will be fixed Until PEACE IS Guaranteed

    @IvoMiller@IvoMiller3 жыл бұрын
  • Kudos to Jeffrey Sachs! Amazing speech!

    @erigerontriteleia@erigerontriteleia Жыл бұрын
  • I admire Jeffrey Sachs and his look on much going on in our world. And the American University talk by John F. Kennedy was indeed the greatest of talks. I think Eisenhower's Cross of Iron speech where he talks about the costs of military versus domestic costs.

    @craigholman3673@craigholman36732 жыл бұрын
  • Brilliant Presentation....I can listen for hours to the Professor and agree with the contents of his numerous interaction.

    @ebrahembakharia4133@ebrahembakharia41339 ай бұрын
  • Remarkable Speech

    @henryarero@henryarero10 ай бұрын
  • I listen the President Kennedy's "American Univ. Speech" of 6/1063 ...and other speeches, each & every one very clear, important and what a nation, what a world we'd have today, had Kennedy's speeches been more heeded and we could have had him in the White House 8 years. I think of him, of Bobby Kennedy all the time since I was 20 years old when he was murdered. Oh, how I hope/pray Bobby the son of Bobby Senior is soon president and may God use him to get our ugly ways far, far away from us again.

    @wally1452@wally145210 ай бұрын
  • Brilliant - and applicable all over again these days - 9 years hence from the time of this speech in 2023!

    @dougbright8120@dougbright812011 ай бұрын
  • Glued to this video throughout.

    @janmarsh@janmarsh10 жыл бұрын
  • Crystal clear - such a brilliant mind, as usual.

    @fabiengerard8142@fabiengerard814211 ай бұрын
  • You tell the truth, people follow you.... you lie, people find out.... they run away from you... it's a natural concept of human intelligence... I am a life long conservative, but if Mr. Kennedy is nominated, for the 1st time I will vote, support, volunteer and recruit my families and friends to do the same... When Mr. Kennedy speaks, he speaks like a faithful and honorable father speaks with his family 👪. May God grand him success and protect him..Amen.

    @saschaatta1@saschaatta111 ай бұрын
  • I too felt in love with this speech

    @TeresaLevy@TeresaLevy10 ай бұрын
  • The 2000 year old secret society has to be continued to be exposed and challenged and world needs leaders of Kennedy's calibre for it..!

    @haticeergun7618@haticeergun7618 Жыл бұрын
  • Thanks. I couldn't help but think about what could have made everything better...and have concluded that the awareness, understanding and therefore further development of people in general, your average person in the world...would have helped....therefore a special shout out to the great professors out there sharing with the rest of us something to think about...so that the mind is more sharp. Thanks!

    @twobraincells4364@twobraincells436410 ай бұрын
  • Thank you, Jeffrey Sachs.

    @RichInk@RichInk Жыл бұрын
  • Peace Stand With each One of us, from our Home,to the nearby village level

    @henryarero@henryarero10 ай бұрын
  • Humanity benefit from peace than Conflict.

    @henryarero@henryarero10 ай бұрын
  • Thank u Dr Sachs. U give me faith in my country even when I’ve lost it

    @truthaboveall7988@truthaboveall79889 ай бұрын
  • thats why he was killed

    @Vidar.m@Vidar.m Жыл бұрын
    • He want to end US involvement in Vietnam after the overthrow of Diem Family, take away Printing money power from FED. Of course, CIA and military-corporation group killed him.

      @hungkieu666@hungkieu666 Жыл бұрын
  • Thanks Dennis

    @grahamash-porter7795@grahamash-porter779510 жыл бұрын
  • Possibilty of Peace Between the two superpowers

    @henryarero@henryarero10 ай бұрын
  • As a six year old in 1962 , all I knew was , this nation called Cuba , may destroy the world ? To this day I have never been so scared. What a memory to have for the very start of life !

    @nathanieldavis5231@nathanieldavis52317 ай бұрын
  • Peace and Peaceful Co-existence of The World is possible

    @henryarero@henryarero10 ай бұрын
  • The book "Uspeakable" goes into Kennedy's fear of being taken out of power by the generals and CIA.

    @danstewart2770@danstewart27709 ай бұрын
  • A Very relevant speech with a lot of pragmatic. The genius of this narrative is this useful dose of naivety which really enrich the analysis equation. Allways the pleasure to lesson to you

    @fouadammor6439@fouadammor6439 Жыл бұрын
  • I love to listen to this man...I am a 72 yr old Québécois. In 2023 I find we are at the same crossroads however we don't have a John F Kennedy to enlighten us. We have an adult with an adolescent mind governing Canada. The people I liked up to outside Québec and Canada were Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy and of course John F Kennedy. I could add to this Rosa Parks. I was 13 when President Kennedy was assassinated. I was in school that day and we were brought to a large room in the basement of the school. Upon the announcement of the death of John F Kennedy we all started to cry. We were in Gatineau Québec and most of us understood that the world would never be the same.

    @coeurderocker444@coeurderocker444 Жыл бұрын
  • My uncle and we were aware that Russia was never defeated in WW II and remember in Battle of Stalingrad.

    @shamimhuq2134@shamimhuq213411 ай бұрын
  • I can still remember my 1st grade teacher explaining to the class of how Stalin was such a hero for bringing Russia fully into the Industrial Age. Yup. I still remember that. Of course none of the 1st grade children knew anything of what went down with that little dance. Getting older is an amazing experience.

    @melee401@melee40110 ай бұрын
  • This is the History that lead to the Great Speech by President Kennedy

    @henryarero@henryarero10 ай бұрын
  • True and sad

    @Dr.Lem_Finance@Dr.Lem_Finance9 ай бұрын
  • Video description URL does not work. :/

    @BallyBoy95@BallyBoy955 жыл бұрын
  • Great, but where is JFK's speech?

    @grahamash-porter7795@grahamash-porter779510 жыл бұрын
  • same to me

    @littlesquirrel3310@littlesquirrel3310 Жыл бұрын
  • Respect n RiP ...

    @jerronng6036@jerronng6036 Жыл бұрын
  • "Stalin was a murderer, he was paranoid and he was crushing trying to defend Soviet interests" - Oh, how touching! If defending the interests of his country is a symptom of paranoia, then undoubtedly Putin is also paranoid. :) "The Soviet Union was afraid of the revival of Germany," I wonder if Mr. Sachs himself believes what he says? The Soviet Union was building factories in East Germany. We were loved there. The Germans remembered how Russian soldiers fed them in 1945 from field kitchens. German children came to our yard, wanted to be friends with us. I am a witness to this, I lived in the GDR in 1971-1975. Children are not adults, they do not know how to pretend, they believe in what adults tell them at home. The Germans were ashamed of what their soldiers did during the war in Russia. I've seen it myself. In the summer, I spent almost all the time visiting the German old man and old woman and called them grandma and grandpa, they wanted it that way. Who was afraid of whom, Mr. Sachs? This is a blatant lie! What nonsense to say that we left Eastern Europe because we were afraid of the West. If we were afraid, would we allow the West to approach our very borders? No, we really wanted peace, we believed in good, so we believed in the good intentions of the West. Each expects from the other what he himself is capable of. You won't understand us because you don't know how to be kind. My God! What cowards you are! You are afraid all the time and that's why you invent all sorts of provocations, that's why you are hoarding weapons, that's why you expect aggression from others. Stop being afraid and you will see that the world does not work the way you see it.

    @user-dn9hm1yk6m@user-dn9hm1yk6m8 ай бұрын
  • See the video description

    @DennisMansell@DennisMansell10 жыл бұрын
  • Conflict leads to the Majority Poor Not to realize Their potential, especially , Women, children and Disabled Among other vulnerable groups

    @henryarero@henryarero10 ай бұрын
  • Let’s put his nephew in the White House. We need this outlook

    @FreebornJohnLillburne@FreebornJohnLillburne14 күн бұрын
  • AFTER THAT. SPEECH CIA KILLED HIM 😢

    @elladowling2005@elladowling20059 ай бұрын
  • I read that Eisenhower ok'd the assassination of Patrice Lumumba. I find that hard to accept believing that Eisenhower was too decent to allow such a thing. I hope it is inaccurate, or there is more to that reporting that sheds better light on it.

    @tombryant52jumpscoach@tombryant52jumpscoachАй бұрын
  • Conflict leads to the Destruction of Humanity and the Enviroment.

    @henryarero@henryarero10 ай бұрын
  • Conflict affect the Human population

    @henryarero@henryarero10 ай бұрын
  • The Challenge is always the same Trade 'the Good' in for a game? The Task betrays when on board The cutting board of Caesar's hoard CH- To keep in control By playing a role Avoiding to serve for the Whole The empire preachers talk fine To keep all its victims on line Prosperity preachers, these vanity teachers Make dollars by asking a dime CH This empire was doomed from the start The second it sold out its Heart The wars that soon followed From hearts rendered hollowed Once power and greed played its part CH The Challenge is always just Moral Configured into to what seems 'normal' Our task is to keep this on track On the journey of making this fact CH

    @aaronhoffman9020@aaronhoffman90209 ай бұрын
  • The link is dead.

    @samd4219@samd421910 ай бұрын
  • Swords into Plowshare FOR Peaceful World

    @henryarero@henryarero10 ай бұрын
  • Love you too all People and then world Godbless Jesus Christ Amen

    @emmafuentesbaltazar8801@emmafuentesbaltazar8801 Жыл бұрын
  • 36:40 a brief summary here leaving out much information about the potus struggle with the CIA and Military about authorizing this invasion, and apparent opinionated statement of the speaker. Not a subject to personalize and leave out the details IMHO

    @astropilotred@astropilotred9 ай бұрын
  • I think of refugees,I think of assylum Seekers, i think of migrant due to climate change and Political Instability

    @henryarero@henryarero10 ай бұрын
  • Neelam shahzadi 15 feb 1984

    @zahraimtiaz8534@zahraimtiaz85349 ай бұрын
  • American Europeans to all always talk about weapons why weapons only kills

    @ramrijal9116@ramrijal91168 ай бұрын
  • President Kennedy wanted send troops to laos in 1960

    @johndilivio2770@johndilivio277010 ай бұрын
  • Such a globolists.

    @erenepsara794@erenepsara7948 ай бұрын
  • what a hypocrite

    @feorh1919@feorh19194 жыл бұрын
    • Why?

      @erNomic@erNomic Жыл бұрын
    • You must be a weapons manufacturer.

      @dannychan1342@dannychan134211 ай бұрын
    • Professor Jeffrey Sachs is a peacemaker in all sense of the word. He risks being bullied, ostracized and physically attacked by contradicting the wishes of the Corporate mainstream media and the military industrial complexes. He is sacrificing every moment of his life in educating the world about the true history of the United States of America!

      @dannychan1342@dannychan134211 ай бұрын
    • 34:00 Anyone says that the Jews were not the winners of World War II is sleeping, and anyone believes that the Soviet that did nothing must inherit the most luxurious European nations such as Bulgaria such as Romania such as Yugoslavia Albania these are very good weather very good agricultural countries these are the Los Angeles and Floridas of Europe why the Soviet should inherit those countries? Poland alone was a Switzerland at the time wa very wealthy country, it is obvious that Jews want to eliminate all the Gentiles so they pushed America to scare the hell out of the world by the Hiroshima bomb then they stole the technology and gave it to the Soviet so there will be a thermonuclear World War III that would annihilate the entire gentiles, and John F Kennedy and Eisenhower were very aware of this conspiracy, there is no other explanation that after the shutdown of the Soviet Union, North Korea should become a nuclear power and we know the South Korea and North Korea are ready to unite America doesn't allow them and we know there is no such thing as USA it's called JewSA

      @BehzadNili@BehzadNili11 ай бұрын
  • Jeffrey ripping a hole open and filling it with truth get it Jeff! nice job

    @markferrari5886@markferrari5886 Жыл бұрын
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