Tag: John F Kennedy

Apparently they’ve been around since the very first presidential TV debates. From my local paper’s Today In History feature: In 1960, John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon held the third televised debate for their presidential campaign (Nixon was in Los Angeles , Kennedy was in New York). emphasis mine So…

In one of his first acts as president, John F. Kennedy signed into law a bill cutting taxes – including taxes for the wealthy, which were cut by nearly 20%. Kennedy’s actions to cut taxes have drawn praise from Republicans like Speaker of the House John Boehner, South Carolina Senator…

‎”…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, their civil liberties..if that is what they mean…

With the, hopefully, soon to be Bush tax cuts for the rich about to sunset, many of our friends on the right LOVE to say why don’t you want tax cuts like JFK did? So I thought I would examine what JFK actually had to say! \ In his third…