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Keeping Kennedy's promise: The Peace Corps: Unmet hope of the new frontier (Routledge, 2019). online; Mackenzie, G. Calvin, and Robert Weisbrot. The Liberal Hour: Washington and the Politics of Change in the 1960s (Penguin, 2008). Perry, Barbara A. Jacqueline Kennedy: First Lady of the New Frontier (University Press of Kansas, 2018). online ...
Kennedy gave the speech, largely written by presidential advisor and speechwriter Ted Sorensen, to a large crowd at Rice University Stadium in Houston, Texas. In his speech, Kennedy characterized space as a new frontier, invoking the pioneer spirit that dominated American folklore. He infused the speech with a sense of urgency and destiny, and ...
Kennedy called his domestic proposals the "New Frontier". [303] However, Kennedy's small margin of victory in the 1960 election, his lack of deep connections to influential members of Congress, and his administration's focus on foreign policy hindered the passage of New Frontier policies. [304]
Some of the Great Society initiatives were derived from New Frontier proposals which had stalled during the Kennedy administration. [2] Johnson's success depended on his skills of persuasion and the Democratic landslide victory in the 1964 elections , which brought many new liberals [ 3 ] into Congress and made the House of Representatives of ...
A new Gallup poll shows that 65 percent of Americans now believe JFK was killed on November 22, ... Kennedy's secretary, ... and a new frontier, can be snuffed out by a man with an army surplus ...
This legislation was passed as part of John F. Kennedy's New Frontier. [1] It led to considerable deinstitutionalization. In 1955, Congress passed the Mental Health Study Act, leading to the establishment of the Joint Commission on Mental Illness and Mental Health. [2]
Under Kennedy's direction William Attwood had discussions with the Cuban UN ambassador in New York. [40] In the days before Kennedy's assassination he told the French journalist Jean Daniel in a White House meeting, to send a message to Castro that he was willing to lift the economic embargo against Cuba so long as the Cuban government stopped ...
The game plan for Democratic opposition to Trump 2.0 is still a work in progress, but rolling over on Kennedy’s nomination to head HHS would be a bad way to start.