This year will mark 60 years since President John F. Kennedy offered his memorable and inspiring justification for his plan to send humans to the Moon before 1970. "We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, and they must be won and used for the progress of all people," Kennedy said. "We choose to go to the Moon. We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one we intend to win...." Kennedy's soaring rhetoric is more than a fascinating glimpse of an era that was characterized by a unified national purpose and ambition. It is more than a product of its time. For EEI and for our member companies- our nation's investor-owned electric companies-it encapsulates our determination and resolve as we advance our vision for America's energy future.
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