Today we are still going over Kennedy. I had him as a blog assignment, so I pretty much know what's going on. Right now we are talking about his 1960 election up against Richard Nixon. It was the first presidential televised debates. Many say this helped him win the election. Kennedy increased the number of helicopters, military advisors, and undeclared US Special Forces in the Vietnam. The CIA helped the new Ba'ath Party government overthrow. Communists in Iraq. This new party systematically murdered large numbers of Iraq's educated elite-killings in which Saddam Hussein himself is said to have this participated.
New Frontier - Was Kennedy's new domestic policy.
- Promised federal funding for:
Eduaction
Medical Care for the Elderly.
Economic aid to rural regions.
Government intervention to halt the recession.
End racial discrimination.
Peace Corps was established in 1961 whre Americans volunterr to help underdeveloped nations in areas such as education, farming, health care, and construction.
Signed the Equal Pay Act of 1963 a federal law aimed at abolishing wage dispartly bassed on sex.
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