Robert F. Kennedy: Tribute to John F. Kennedy at the Democratic National Convention

Glossary

• Averell Harriman W. Averell Harriman, twentieth-century U.S. statesman
• Hubert Humphrey U.S. senator, later vice president under President Lyndon Johnson
• Lewis and Clark Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, who explored the American West (1803–1806) under President Thomas Jefferson’s direction
• Louisiana Purchase purchase of some 829,000 square miles of land from France in 1803, doubling the size of the United States
• “Only when our arms are sufficient …” quotation from John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address
• Robert Frost American poet, author of the poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” from which the quotation is taken
• “We have the capacity …” quotation from speech to the United Nations in 1963