Originally posted by WWhiskey
JFK's veiws were very much along the lines of todays republican base I.E. lower taxes to boost the economy,less gov. in our daily lives. pretty much the oposite of the lib's today
Well, that's an opinion, I'm sure. I might suggest:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._KennedyDomestic policy
Kennedy called his domestic program the "New Frontier". It ambitiously promised federal funding for education, medical care for the elderly, and government intervention to halt the recession. Kennedy also promised an end to racial discrimination. In 1963, he proposed a tax reform which included income tax cuts, but this was not passed by Congress until 1964, after his death. Few of Kennedy's major programs passed Congress during his lifetime, although, under his successor Johnson, Congress did vote them through in 1964–65.
Immigration
John F. Kennedy initially proposed an overhaul of American immigration policy that later was to become the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, sponsored by Kennedy's brother Senator Edward Kennedy. It dramatically shifted the source of immigration from Northern and Western European countries towards immigration from Latin America and Asia and shifted the emphasis of selection of immigrants towards facilitating family reunification. Kennedy wanted to dismantle the selection of immigrants based on country of origin and saw this as an extension of his civil rights policies.
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Reinventing Kennedy as an uber-conservative is akin to reinventing McCartney as an heroic crusader, imo.
Opinion. Educated helps, though. Agenda-fed generally doesn't.