The speech had caused his approval ratings to shoot up eleven percent and was, in short-term, very well received. It's sentiments were very similiar to Kennedy's famous "Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country" quote. On the other hand, it was almost instantly nullified by the cabinet resignation blunder three days later which caused confusion and the notion that the government was in a meltdown. There is an hypothesis that if this blunder hadn't been made or it was changed drastically (only the five people who resigned were asked to resign, it happened at a later date, etc.) ...it could have changed America's direction dramatically. So, would anything have changed if the speech was handled better? If so, how?