John F Kennedy's New Frontier
In the Presidential campaign of 1960, John F. Kennedy broke through American complacency with a call to get America moving again. It had not occurred to most American citizens that their country was not meeting its challenges; indeed few thought about what those challenges were. Yet in his skillful presentation of facts and figures, overlaid with a "New Frontier" philosophy of vigor, direction, and adventure, Kennedy reached the people and slipped into office. He served his country not even three years. The New Frontier that was Kennedy's trademark was a summation of the Kennedy philosophy. It was the philosophy that stated that then was the time for Americans to stop thinking of themselves as single Americans first and a united peoples second, a time to come together for the good of the whole nation rather than personal gain. He believed his philosophy was a worthy successor to Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal in the late 1930's and early 1940's (Sorenson 167). Kennedy thought that the whole world would be watching to see how the United States would handle the issues that were arising in the world. Issues such as scientific discoveries, space exploration, and issues with equality
In part due to this report, I have now become an ardent supporter and I guess you could say a "fan" of this President. It makes me have very mixed feelings, on the one hand I am as proud as I have ever been to be an American because of the fact that we had such a wonderful and vibrant young leader, and then I also am almost ashamed to be part of a country that I believe had some level of involvement with his subsequent demise. Kennedy also had a very hard time dealing with the big businesses of the day. It was no secret that the businesses favored the Republican party, and even more importantly, Richard Nixon, in the previous election of 1960. At a meeting with the National Convention of Manufacturer's in 1961, Kennedy reiterated his strong feeling towards his New Frontier ideals by saying that those businesses who had been so unsupportive of his economic plans just had not embraced the New Frontier way of thinking like he had hoped. Although Kennedy continued to grapple with the pressures from big business during his brief reign, he did try to keep the huge political gulf between big business and his visions for prosperity for the century as close as he could (Sorenson 465). the number one force in the world, their style of governing their bodies of peoples would have the advantage. John F. Kennedy stood for many different things, he stood up for the downtrodden in our society, the people who were most often overlooked. He was most concerned with the welfare of his children's world in which they would grow up in, a world where he wanted no threat of nuclear annhialation, of racial equality for all, and for a nation not divided by any lines, regardless whether they be racial, bipartisan, or class. Another area that gathered Kennedy great respect and admiration was his constant and unyielding push for civil rights for all. Kennedy's civil rights movement helped elevate Kennedy to Lincolnesque proportions (Parmet 249). The fact that Kennedy did so much more than to just 'talk' about how changes would be made and spit out empty promises show the true character of the man. For instance, the Kennedy administration placed more than forty blacks in important posts during its first two months alone! And later that year, Thurgood Marshall, the man who had argued the school segregation case of Topeka, Kansas, before the Supreme Court, was placed on the Second Circuit of Appeals Court in New York ( Bernstein 341). Robert Weaver, who had been appointed to the post of administrator of the Housing and Home Finance Agency, who was also a 53-year old black man, remembers later that "...such appointments were symbolic of the concern with equal employment oppurtunities as well as t
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