John F. Kennedy is lionized by liberals.He inspired Bill Clinton to go into politics and Lyndon B. Johnson to push for landmark civil rights laws.His champions insist he would have donegreat liberal thingshad he not been killed. But what if we havecompletely misunderstood him?What if we judge him by the lengthy record of his actual political career?His two great causes were anticommunism and economic growth.His tax cuts, military buildup, and other policies all make him, by the standards of both his time and our own, a ...
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John F. Kennedy is lionized by liberals.He inspired Bill Clinton to go into politics and Lyndon B. Johnson to push for landmark civil rights laws.His champions insist he would have donegreat liberal thingshad he not been killed. But what if we havecompletely misunderstood him?What if we judge him by the lengthy record of his actual political career?His two great causes were anticommunism and economic growth.His tax cuts, military buildup, and other policies all make him, by the standards of both his time and our own, a conservative.Ira Stoll convincingly argues that JFKhad more in common with Ronald Reagan than with LBJ.
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