Besides the event of this day forty years ago would someone please explain what John Kennedy did to be note worthy as a president? Please provide sources. TIA.He was the last Democrat President to understand that cutting taxes stimulates the economy. He pushed tax cuts and got them when the economy was in a recession.
The "Secret" JFK Tax Cuts
SUMMARY: Ted Kennedy and Democrats are fuming over the use of John F. Kennedy in pro tax cut advertisements. The ads show footage and the words of JFK, who greatly reduced taxes, including a reduction from 91% to 70% for the rich. Why the JFK tax cuts were no different than Reagan's tax cuts, and the ones proposed by Bush. Why Democrats are so desperate to hide this.See also:
As I recall he never got his tax cuts through Congress. Rasputin's evil twin LBJ got it done in 1964, I believe.
I'd forgotten about the Kennedy connections to McCarthy in the 1950s.
I should have been more specific. Name something positive he did that did not involve getting out of a mess created by his own incompetence.
As one of millions of Americans who depended upon North Vietnam's "most trusted American" we thought we knew "the way it is" in those days.
Years later we learned that Khrushchev mopped the floors of Vienna with Kennedy, dumped Kennedy's limp body into a mop bucket, and left it to be discoverd by James "Scotty" Reston of the New York Times. "How was it?' Reston asked trying to act casual while pulling Kennedy's soaking wet body from the bucket. "Worst thing in my life. He savaged me," Kennedy responded. The president seemed to Reston to be almost in shock, repeating himself and speaking with astonishing candor to the journalist. . . ."
It was 1966, I believe, that Reston revealed what happened in Vienna in 1961. (Walter never did.) Khrushchev sized up the Presisdent as a punk who had chickened out of supporting the Bay of Pigs operation. A diletante who could be pushed around at will. Khrushchev doubtless knew that daddy's mob connections had stolen the election, even Cronkite couldn't keep that secret but Nixon refused to put the country through a recount.
Russia moved ahead having their way with Berlin and developed plans to put missiles in Cuba. Kennedy had to do something about Cuba -- as for Berlin he went no further than telling the Germans, in German, that he was a donut.
I had no use for the Kennedys then and, now with even more "the way it really was" coming out about the Kennedy "crack" and Whore House, I have even less respect for them. But they never deserved to be killed.