Kennedy's Influence On Jfk

Kennedy was not a talented orator right off the bat. During the early weeks of the 1960 campaign, Kennedy had not yet learned how to properly speak in public or at debates. Reportedly, a strange hoarseness crept into Kennedy's voice. (Communication and Mass Media Complete, 1968) As you can imagine, this was not good for the war-hero image he was cultivating. A politician who cannot inspire the people through speech is no politician at all. Apparently, it was where Kennedy was speaking from that made such a difference. (Self-admittedly,) Kennedy was speaking from the back of his throat; and he had been taking voice lessons well before and during the campaign to help teach him how to speak better. (Communication and Mass Media Complete,

While, to date, Kennedy is still the only Catholic to ever be elected President; most people believe that his election to office finally ended the "Catholic Issue." Many issues were raised during the 1960 campaign. Nixon consistently refused to use the "Catholic Issue” or any anti-Catholic sentiments within his campaign offices, as a basis for argument or complaint. (The Catholic University of American Press, 2005) While in stark contrast, Kennedy's supporters denounced any references to religion or Catholicism during his campaign, while also simultaneously appealing to specific fringe political groups; while at the same exact time, suggested that Republicans were bigoted towards Catholicism and many other religions. Kennedy used his religion as a certain kind of power during the 1960 campaign. While doing so, he also decried Republicans for their strong-held beliefs. To say that Kennedy was hypocritical is nothing short of the

Hovde. The task force returned a report to President Kennedy that detailed three proposals for federal aid to education. Proposal number one was a grant of thirty dollars per student per year that would be based off of attendance in public schools in the United States. The second proposal would give an additional twenty dollars per student for students in low income states that had an underprivileged public education system. Finally the third proposal aimed to help urban school students in the same way that the second proposal helped those students in low income states by also providing them with a twenty dollar “equalization” (Bernstein, 1991) grant. Along with these proposals the task force also came up with three basic recommendations. The first was that the federal government would provide support for the country’s public schools. The second recommendation was federal government support for the higher education system of the United States. Lastly the third recommendation was to reinforce the National Defense Education Act. These recommendations culminated in the Higher Education Facilities