Over the course of American history, a few undelivered presidential speeches have taken on iconic status in the decades after they were supposed to have been given.
There’s the address John F. Kennedy would have delivered in defense of American soft power as a bulwark against communism and authoritarian threats, in which he would have declared that there was “no better form of investment in our national security” than foreign aid and warned that American leadership was dependent on global “respect for our mission in the world.”
