>>9557751>>9557732>>9557729"The Soft American"
By President-elect John F. Kennedy
>Thus the same civilizations which produced some of our highest achievements of philosophy and drama, government and art, also gave us a belief in the importance of physical soundness which has become a part of Western tradition; from the mens sana in corpore sano of the Romans to the British belief that the playing fields of Eaton brought victory on the battlefields of Europe. This knowledge, the knowledge that the physical well-being of the citizen is an important foundation for the vigor and vitality of all the activities of the nation, is as old as Western civilization itself. But it is a knowledge which today, in American, we are in danger of forgetting.https://web.archive.org/web/20100503110929/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1134750/index.htm 