President Joe Biden on Monday said his administration’s effort to bring to the fore new treatments and cures for cancer is in a similar position to America’s space programme at the time then-president John Kennedy called for the US to marshal resources to put a man on the Moon and bring him home again.
Speaking at Kennedy’s presidential library on the six-decade anniversary of the day he declared that Americans would “choose to go to the moon” because doing so was hard rather than easy, Mr Biden invoked the 35th president’s legacy as he compared the present moment to the time when Kennedy called on America to reach for the stars.
