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BLAST FROM THE PAST
A NEW PRESIDENT
An editorial in the December 1960 issue of The Progressive set an agenda for the nation’s newly elected President, John F. Kennedy. Here’s a taste:
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The next four months will answer some of the ques- We can conceive of no tions and resolve at least a few of the doubts of those greater rejection of the platwho voted for Senator John F. Kennedy with hopeful form on which he ran than hearts and troubled minds. It will take much longer than for Kennedy to succumb to that, of course, to form a considered judgment about the this kind of humbug, and Kennedy Administration. But there will be helpful clues we feel reasonably confiduring the next thirty days when he makes his major dent he won’t. appointments, and thereafter during the first 100 days The heart of his victoof his administration when, by his own judgment, he must, rious appeal to the elecfor the rest of the long road, chart the course and set torate was that we must the style of his presidency. “move ahead” toward
The pressures from the far-right and the cautious mod- progressive goals. His is now the power to erates are tremendous. They are contending that the ex- lead in that direction, however slim the margin of victory, traordinary closeness of the outcome robs President-elect and it would be a bitter betrayal of the very forces in Kennedy of a progressive mandate and demands of him America that did elect him if he should be conned into the formation of something called a “national govern- believing and acting on the notion that the nearly 50 ment” which would freeze the status quo for the next percent who voted for his opponent were opposed to the four years. liberal program on which Kennedy staked his candidacy.
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