It is impossible to say, but I think the country would have been better off with Kennedy as president than it was with LBJ.
We may not have had the War on Poverty or the Civil Rights Act.
We would have definitely had the Civil Rights Act. AS WRITTEN, I’m have no problem with it. Kennedy was doing it to eradicate the state supported racism in the country at the time (yes, it was rampant, I remember). LBJ did it solely to “have those n*****s voting Democratic for the next 200 years”
The Great Society was Johnson’s gift that turned us into a welfare state. The Great Society was not Kennedy’s New Frontier.
*** We may not have had the War on Poverty or the Civil Rights Act.****
Great examples of the myth creating around JFK.
“The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was proposed by President John F. Kennedy in 1963 and later signed into law by his successor, President Lyndon B. Johnson, in 1964.”
“Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward have probably been most widely read. President John F. Kennedy and President Johnson, they argue, launched the War on Poverty in order to attract a high percentage of black votes in the 1964
election.”
“I think the country would have been better off with Kennedy as president than it was with LBJ.”
Absolutely right! Since the JFK files started dropping I’ve heard more about LBJ than I ever wanted to know. On Newsmax last night a guest mentioned some special problem with him. The host (Finnerty or Schmitt) knew what he was talking about and it apparently was so nasty that they wouldn’t speak of it.
In the ‘80s I met a military guy who had been stationed at the WH, and one of his jobs was to escort bimbos from outside to LBJ. I think he mentioned tunnels or something. Of course, that probably happened while JFK was there, too.