While reading “The Gettysburg Address” written by Abraham Lincoln and the “Inaugural Address” from John F Kennedy, we see how even though the subject of their speeches were different, they still had the same concept. Both president Lincoln and President Kennedy wanted the American people to see each other as one. To have freedom and equality for all. The problem that Lincoln thought the United States should solve was to work together and not let the people that fought for us die in vain. In “The Gettysburg Address,” he states, “we here highly resolve that those dead shall not have died in vain-that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom.” This was the start of something new, the start to give every American person the freedom that she/he deserved. Kennedy wanted to solve the issues of tyranny, diseases, poverty, and war. He stated, “Now the trumpet summons us-again not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need- not as a call to battle, though embattled we are- but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, “rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation”- a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself.” President Kennedy wanted to fix the issues America had. He wanted to make it a better place. 

Sadly the United States is still dealing with the issues both presidents wanted to put a stop to. There’s still racism, inequality, poverty, and diseases, but we have been taking some steps to make it better and put an end to it once and for all. 

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