Profiles in Courage

And that, you know, I was raised in a milieu where we were taught that it was a great privilege to be able to be part of great controversy. And that the best thing that could happen to us is if we could give our lives and our energies to something that, you know, was larger than ourselves.

And he always said that moral courage is an even rarer commodity. And that, you know, and ultimately, that was, you know, the reason that my uncle wrote that book, Profiles in Courage, the one that won the Nobel Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, the Pulitzer Prize was to illustrate, you know, a dozen stories of American politicians who had sacrificed their careers and in some cases, their lives or principle to stand on a principle that they knew was going to cost them.

I don't expect everybody to, that I'm dealing with to appear in the second editions of Profiles in Courage.

Have your father's book right behind me actually. That's an original that I found very interesting.

It was my uncle, President Kennedy, who wrote the original "Profiles in Courage" where he celebrated eight United States senators for their political courage.

He wrote a 1955 book. It's called Profiles in Courage.

He wrote a 1955 book. It's called Profiles in Courage.

And he wrote this while he was recovering from an operation that he had on his back.

He wrote a 1955 book. It's called Profiles in Courage.

And he wrote this while he was recovering from an operation that he had on his back.

In 1954, when he was convalescing from a painful back operation, Senator John F. Kennedy had time to think about political courage.

The result was a book entitled Profiles in Courage in which he wrote, in the days ahead, only the very courageous will be able to take the hard and unpopular decisions necessary for our survival in the struggle with a powerful enemy.

And only the very courageous will be able to keep alive the spirit of individualism and dissent which gave birth to this nation, nourished it as an infant and carried it through its severest tests upon the attainment of its maturity.

What do they call that? That's courage. Profile in courage. In this case, that's courage.