Biden channels JFK in ‘moonshot speech,’ highlights administration's efforts fighting cancer

President Biden, a nod to JFK's infamous moonshot speech, highlighted his administration's efforts to cut the U.S. death rate from cancer in half over the next quarter-century.

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Biden, who shared the stage with Kennedy’s daughter, U.S. ambassador to Australia Caroline Kennedy, and her son, John Schlossberg, highlighted the enormous progress made in the last half-century since President Nixon signed the National Cancer Act but lamented that it still remains the second-highest killer of people in the U.S. after heart disease.  

"Cancer does not (discriminate) between red and blue. It doesn’t care if you’re a Republican or a Democrat. Beating cancer is something we can do together," Biden said told the crowd at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.