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   XPost: soc.rights.human   
   From: SilenceDogood@NebulaX.com   
      
   On 11/24/2010 1:32 AM, Abel wrote:   
   >>> It was 47 years ago today, that one of our most liberal, and most   
   >>> popular Presidents that we've ever had, was shot dead,   
   >>   
   >> Kennedy was certainly not a liberal by today's standards.   
   >>   
   >> --   
   >> Bert Hyman      St. Paul, MN    b...@iphouse.com   
   >   
   > President Kennedy himself said this at one time:   
   >   
   > "If by a 'Liberal' they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind,   
   > someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who   
   > cares about the welfare of the people -- their health, their housing,   
   > their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil   
   > liberties -- someone who believes we can break through the stalemate   
   > and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what   
   > they mean by a "Liberal," then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal."   
   >   
   > JFK is associated with the Space Race, and he was particularly   
   > interested in the non-militarization of space, and he was associated   
   > with the African American Civil Rights Movement.  That sure sounds   
   > liberal to me.   
   >   
   > He graduated cum laude from Harvard with a degree in international   
   > affairs in 1940, and his thesis was published that year as a book   
   > entitled "Why England Slept", a book that would easily become a   
   > bestseller. He published another book later on, titled "Profiles in   
   > Courage", which received the Pulitzer Prize.   
   >   
   > Kennedy defeated Nixon in one of the closest presidential elections of   
   > the twentieth century. In the national popular vote Kennedy led Nixon   
   > by just two-tenths of one percent (49.7% to 49.5%), 14 electors from   
   > Mississippi and Alabama refused to support Kennedy because of his   
   > support for the civil rights movement.   
   >   
   > John F. Kennedy was sworn in as the 35th President at noon on January   
   > 20, 1961. In his inaugural address he spoke of the need for all   
   > Americans to be active citizens, famously saying, "Ask not what your   
   > country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." He also   
   > asked the nations of the world to join together to fight what he   
   > called the "common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and war   
   > itself."   
   >   
   > Another one of his famous quotes:   
   >   
   > "those who make peaceful revolution impossible, will make violent   
   > revolution inevitable,"   
   >   
   > Kennedy created the Alliance for Progress, which sent foreign aid to   
   > troubled countries and sought greater human rights standards.   
      
      
   Rome changed......  How's that Hope and CHANGE going?   
      
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