Today, in class, we got on the computers and talked about our presidents web logs.
JFK ran against VP RIchard Nixon in 1960. It was the first occasion where presidential debates were aired on television. There were three reasons why people think JFK won:
-Televised Debates
-Kennedy looked younger and better, vs older, tired looking Nixon.
-Also, Former president Dwight Eisenhower didn't promote Nixon, which may be the biggest reason why JFK won.
"Ask not what you can do for your country, but what your country can do for you."
Presidential Accomplishments.
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THe CIA helped the bew Ba'ath Party government overthrow communists in Iaq. This new party systematically murdered large numbers in Iraq's eduacated elite-killings in which Suddam Hussein himself is said to have participated. The Nuclear Test Ban Treaty was signed in 1963.
The New Frontier (Kennedy's "New Deal") He promised federal funding for:
1.Education
2. Medical care for elderly
3. Economic aid to rural regions
4. Gonverment intervention to halt the recession
5. End racial discrimination.
The Peace Corps was established in 1961 where Young Americans volunteer to help undeveloped nations in areas such as education, farming, health care and construction.
Signed the Equal Pay Act of 1963, a federal lw aimed at abolishing wage disparity based on sex.
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