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John F. Kennedy: The New Frontier

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Kennedy called his domestic program that was known as the New Frontier. A program that was ambitiously promising to give federal funding for education to those with low income, medical care to the elderly so they gotten the best treatment. Even economic aid to people who were living in the rural regions of America as well as government intervention to help halt the recession, it was a period of temporary economic decline for all trade and industrial activities for farms and factories, causing income of profit in America to reduce. Kennedy had also promised an end to racial discrimination toward colored people. He told everyone this deal in his speech at the Democratic Convention, saying that not all problems are won through, just at many problems are not solved. …show more content…

He was not just going to face these problems by himself as the other presidents of the past had done, but intend to ask of the fellow Americans to work alongside him in this journey. However, as the New Frontier soon began to witness a broad passage of important social and economic reforms, many of the President 's programs began to get bogged down by congresses. However, there were a few that he was successful in passing, such as out of work people in economically depressed areas getting aid as well as a bill in order to increase minimum wage to aid those who could not get by with almost nothing when they had children to feed. In addition, He even made a Trade Expansion Act that lowered the tariffs cost so trades can increase, resulting in America gaining more profit from foreign

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