I'm OK, You're JFK

"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.."

Like you, I have spent thousands of hours trying to figure out what Kennedy meant by "do the other things". I have come to the conclusion that Kennedey just couldn't remember what other things he was thinking of. A little known fact I came across is that Kennedy wrote his own speech notes on the lid of a pack of smokes (Lucky Strikes) that was discovered in his suit the day NASA fired his body into the sun.

This is what he had written: (for full effect, picture him saying these in his speech)

Things to do in the next decade:
-Develop a stately US equivalent to "tea time" in Britain. Possible name/theme: "The Popeye Cigarette Hour"

-Carve Gregory Peck's face on the side of Mount Logan. Rename the mountain "Old Smokey".

-Destroy the coming "British Invasion" at the water's edge; promote Elvis to Major-General, and The "Commodores" to "The Admirals".

-Somehow discover the fate of the Robinson family, and Dr. Smith.

I had a thing for the wife, way back when

-Change all atlases and other references that have the name "Cuba" to read "Pee-Pee Land"

-Develop the pictures Francis Gary Powers took of Khrushchev sunbathing in the backyard of his villa near the Black Sea. Then invent the internet and post the pictures.

Shocking!

-Mandrake