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"With the stroke of a pen, Cruz could outlaw Federal employee unions. It was just an executive order of JFK's that permitted them. No President since has bothered—or dared—to reverse this EO."

Outstanding post, and yes it is true. But it raises a number of points. I think Ike and Truman were way-better than JFK, and I wonder how many freepers think JFK is so over-rated. Tangent to that is his successor LBJ, I wonder in terms of growing the welfare state and entitlements JFK put us in the mess we are in now and if we really look at it Carter is a piker compared to BHO and LBJ.

Or did LBJ, just run with what JFK would have done anyhow.

Fr-er historians please opine....

IMO, LBJ was able move the Great Society legislation because he had a martyred JFK to use as a club on congress.

JFK could not have gotten 20% of what LBJ did. In fact, JFK’s political clout was rather weak.

Or did LBJ, just run with what JFK would have done anyhow.

I don't think we can assume any man could have duplicated LBJ's scale of flinty-eyed destruction. Not even 0bummer. The War on Poverty has kept generations of Americans—20 million or so at any given time?—in slavery, in whose name Washington labors to destroy the liberty of the rest of us.

JFK distrusted Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights movement with good reason: It was run by white Communists, of whom MLK was one of their major puppets. For a taste, search for King's 1967 speech where he comes out against the Vietnam war. He says a couple of anti-Soviet things, and then proceeds to endorse a good dozen Soviet-backed revolutions in Africa and South America while trashing the U.S.—calling our country "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today."

I don't think JFK would have wound up duplicating Johnson's demographic apocalypse—the one that dropped America into the pit of socialism.