In a personal letter to vice president Nixon in 1960, Reagan described JFK this way.
“I do not include Kennedy’s acceptance speech because beneath the generalities I heard a frightening call to arms. Unfortunately he is a powerful speaker with an appeal to the emotions. He leaves little doubt that his idea of the “challenging new world” is one in which the Federal Govt. will grow bigger & do more and of course spend more. I know there must be some short sighted people in the Republican Party who will advise that the Republicans should try to “out liberal” him. In my opinion this would be fatal.”
“One last thought,— shouldn’t some one tag Mr. Kennedy’s bold new imaginative program with it’s proper age? Under the tousled boyish hair cut it is still old Karl Marx—first launched a century ago. There is nothing new in the idea of a Govt. being Big Brother to us all. Hitler called his “State Socialism” and way before him it was “benevolent monarchy.”
Yeah but that’s what Reagan said about JFK way before JFK tried to take down the Federal Reserve.
With this EO, JFK was more conservative even than Reagan himself.
Executive Order 1110 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_11110
Fascinating letter about JFK. Reagan must have changed his tune, though, when JFK decided to get rid of the Federal Reserve months later.
Executive Order 1110 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_11110
if fact, JFK’s determination to challenge the Fed gives credence to the idea that he had in fact become a Christian before he was killed.
Wow! Nobody talks like that anymore. So much honesty, truth. So refreshing to hear truth even if it tells of something bad.