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Kennedy Becomes President Contrasting candidates – JFK: from wealthy, political family in Massachusetts. – Nixon: self-made from small town in S. California Same age but JFK creates image of youth: America’s future Nixon seen as the past: IKE’s VP
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Kennedy’s Thousand DaysKennedy’s Thousand Days
Chapter 27Section (1 &) 2
The New Frontier & the Great SocietyRiddlebarger
The Great Debates
Legacy of this debate?
Kennedy Becomes President
• Contrasting candidates– JFK: from wealthy, political
family in Massachusetts.– Nixon: self-made from
small town in S. California
• Same age but JFK creates image of youth: America’s future
• Nixon seen as the past: IKE’s VP
New Frontier
• JFK emphasized this with his “New Frontier” campaign
• Claims US is falling behind Soviets; poor not realizing US prosperity.
• Nixon defends IKE• Catholic effect• Election is one of closest
in US history
1960 Election Results
*less than 120,000 popular votes separate the candidates out of 69 million
Electoral: JFK: 303 Nixon: 219 Byrd: 15
Kennedy’s New Frontier:Image & Reality
• Use of media to portray image of young, active president– Reality was lots of health
issues.– Young, beautiful wife and 2
young kids shape image.– Jackie Kennedy
• Politically, JFK finds lots of opposition in Congress to his idea– Was successful raising min.
wage & helping poor areas.
Space Program• Space program will come to
symbolize New Frontier• April 1961: Soviets put 1st
man in space & orbits earth– 1st satellite in orbit too:
Sputnik
• Less than year later, U.S. responds with orbit of Earth: John Glenn
• Soviet leader says them beating us shows communist superiority
Kennedy’s Response•US will put a man on the moon•Funding for unmanned space exploration
“This nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before the decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the Earth. No single project …will be more impressive to mankind, or more important for the long-range exploration of space…But in a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon…it will be an entire nation.”
- May 25, 1961
The Warren Court
• During Kennedy presidency, a number of Supreme Court rulings shape American society
• Earl Warren, is Chief Justice of the Court• Rulings extend individual rights & freedoms:
– Free lawyers for poor– Search & seizure at local levels– Religious freedom/sep. of church & state– State district voting lines
The Kennedy Assassination
• As 1964 neared, JFK is thinking about his re-election
• Trying to build Southern support, he travels to Dallas, TX in November of 1963
• He road through the city in an open motorcade.
Zapruder Film
Aftermath• Kennedy was fatally
wounded• LBJ sworn in hours later• Shocks the nation & the
world– Many will remember that
moment for years.
• Lee Harvey Oswald arrested within hours– Shot 2 days later by Jack
Ruby
Helen Thomas: White House Press Correspondent
“The legacy of hope died with him. You never had that same sense again that we were moving forward.”
Warren Report
• Chief Justice Warren appointed to investigate– Concluded no conspiracy; lone gunman
• Great efforts to build a lasting legacy for JFK– Funeral; Burial at Arlington
• Kennedy had built better relations with Soviets and established the Peace Corps– A program that trained and sent volunteers to poor nations to serve as educators,
health care workers, agricultural advisors and other jobs.
• Much work still to be done at home but now up to LBJ.