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To: ProtectOurFreedom

JFK also emptied the mental hospitals which eventually became the American homeless.

He unionized federal employees.

Signed the first affirmative action law.

He ran on chain migration and tried to pass his immigration dream which eventually passed as his 1965 Immigration bill.

The President’s Commission on the Status of Women endorsed workplace equality, child care facilities for working women, paid maternity leave, better Social Security benefits for widows, and equal pay for comparable work.

The War on Poverty (an idea he had rolled out during the campaign) sought to alleviate penury, especially among the elderly, by pushing for Medicare and expanded Social Security benefits.

He used federal troops to ensure the enrollment of black students at the universities of Mississippi and Alabama; his administration implemented the first “affirmative action” program for government employees and contractors.

He sent over 16,000 troops to Vietnam.

Had his teenage girlfriend fellate his friend at the White House.

Kennedy endorsed the United Nations as “our last best hope,”

He withdrew for the Cuban rebels the sufficient air cover they needed at the Bay of Pigs.


46 posted on 11/22/2023 8:32:34 PM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: ansel12

Re: 46 - “He used federal troops to ensure the enrollment of black students at the universities of Mississippi and Alabama”

He federalized troops of the Alabama Army National Guard, as well he should, as both states refused to admit qualified black American applicants.


92 posted on 11/23/2023 3:54:27 AM PST by Fury
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To: ansel12

JFK did not empty the mental hospitals
that was done in 1981 and signed by Reagan


95 posted on 11/23/2023 4:48:55 AM PST by SisterK (it's controlled demolition)
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