GEOLOGY 002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Job Corps, Cuban Missile Crisis
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From the new frontier to the great society . Themes: known for his youth and his ambition; advisors helped create a myth of star appeal advanced liberalism, youngest president, 44, succeeded eisenhower, when he left, he was the oldest person to have held the office of. President: kennedy framed his political project as a passing of the torch from an older generation to an energetic and ambitious younger generation. New frontier: proposed domestic program championed by the incoming kennedy administration in. 1961 that aimed to jump-start the economy and trigger social progress: kennedy was sick, on strong painkillers during the cuban missile crisis, kennedy slept around a lot, the media knew but media standards were different so. Jfk and congress: southern democrats joined with republicans to block many of kennedy"s legislative requests and initiatives consistent obstacle for democrat presidents, northern and. Western democrats who push new-deal-type policies, limits what they can do, barrier to legislation.
