the draft was circulated through State and Defense for their comments. Ted Sorensen then flew with the draft to Honolulu, and the President worked on the final draft on his way back and gave the speech Monday morning." 1 -- Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. Listen to an audio recording of this address. Commencement Address at American University in Washington, June 10, 1963 Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. -- "Kennedy was a man of extraordinary and insatiable intellectual curiosity who had a great instinct for the crucial realities in a situation. It was a common experience to see proposals brought to him on which experts had been working for months and then have him ask one or two questions which were obviously extremely relevant if not decisive questions -- questions which came out of a larger context and which the experts themselves had not thought of." 1 President Anderson, members of the faculty, board of trustees, distinguished guests, my old colleague, Senator Bob Byrd, who has earned his degree through many years of attending night law school, while I am earning mine in the next 30 minutes, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen : It is with great pride that I participate in this ceremony of the American University, sponsored by the Methodist Church, founded by Bishop John Fletcher Hurst, and first opened by President Woodrow Wilson in 1914. This is a young and growing university, but it has already fulfilled Bishop Hurst's enlightened hope for the study of history and public affairs in a