The President and the Press: Address before the American Newspaper Publishers Association, April 27, 1961
Our country certainly was a different place back in 1961, that’s for sure. Today, as flawed as Kennedy may have been in many ways, there would be absolutely no space for him in today’s Democrat party.
There are people who take extreme exception to anyone who says that he might be a conservative today, and I understand fully why.
But as I said, he certainly isn’t a Democrat of today that’s for sure.