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The party was sharply divided in the following election, as Southern Democrat Strom Thurmond ran for the "States' Rights Democratic Party". With the presidency of John F. Kennedy the Democratic Party began to embrace the civil rights movement and its lock on the South was irretrievably broken. Kennedy's narrow election victory and small working ...
John F. Kennedy's tenure as the 35th president of the United States began with his inauguration on January 20, 1961, and ended with his assassination on November 22, 1963. . Kennedy, a Democrat from Massachusetts, took office following his narrow victory over Republican incumbent vice president Richard Nixon in the 1960 presidential elect
President John F. Kennedy with the Boston Celtics, January 1963. Kennedy was a fan of Major League Baseball's Boston Red Sox and the National Basketball Association's Boston Celtics. [452] [453] Growing up on Cape Cod, Kennedy and his siblings developed a lifelong passion for sailing. [454] He also took up
The 1960 presidential campaign of John F. Kennedy, then junior United States senator from Massachusetts, was formally launched on January 2, 1960, as Senator Kennedy announced his intention to seek the Democratic Party nomination for the presidency of the United States in the 1960 presidential election.
The Democratic platform in 1960 was the longest yet. [8] They called for a loosening of tight economic policy: "We Democrats believe that the economy can and must grow at an average rate of 5 percent annually, almost twice as fast as our annual rate since 1953...As the first step in speeding economic growth, a Democratic president will put an end to the present high-interest-rate, tight-money ...
The selection of the Democratic Party's vice presidential candidate for the 1960 United States presidential election occurred at the party's national convention on August 13, 1960. After winning the presidential nomination on the first ballot of the 1960 Democratic National Convention , Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy turned his attention ...
Kennedy referred to a 2000 article in Women’s Studies Quarterly that DuBose told the committee she learned about Wednesday. The writer quoted her saying “I was in my Marxist phase.”
Ted Kennedy first faced a Democratic Party primary challenge from Edward J. "Eddie" McCormack Jr., the state Attorney General and nephew of U.S. Speaker of the House John W. McCormack. McCormack had the support of many liberals and intellectuals, who thought Kennedy inexperienced ("I back Jack, but Teddy ain't ready") and knew of his suspension ...