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::::Joe Kennedy was pretty conservative on most issues--indeed that was a major reason so many liberals distrusted JFK. As for issues of morality, JFK always supported the most conservative moral position in his day as represented by the Catholic Church. On the Peace Corps see what the historians say: "The Peace Corps was not designed as an overseas antipoverty program; '''it was to be a weapon in the Cold War arsenal''', one President Kennedy hoped would demonstrate to the world that "a new generation of Americans has taken over this country ... young Americans [who will] serve the cause of freedom as servants of peace around the world, working for freedom as the communists work for their system." quote from ''The Politics of the Peace Corps & Vista'' By T. Zane Reeves (1988). Page 20. [[User:RJJensen|RJJensen]] 01:25, 9 November 2009 (EST)
::::Joe Kennedy was pretty conservative on most issues--indeed that was a major reason so many liberals distrusted JFK. As for issues of morality, JFK always supported the most conservative moral position in his day as represented by the Catholic Church. On the Peace Corps see what the historians say: "The Peace Corps was not designed as an overseas antipoverty program; '''it was to be a weapon in the Cold War arsenal''', one President Kennedy hoped would demonstrate to the world that "a new generation of Americans has taken over this country ... young Americans [who will] serve the cause of freedom as servants of peace around the world, working for freedom as the communists work for their system." quote from ''The Politics of the Peace Corps & Vista'' By T. Zane Reeves (1988). Page 20. [[User:RJJensen|RJJensen]] 01:25, 9 November 2009 (EST)
::On unemployment remedies: that was a major issue in 1960-61 and liberals wanted a return to the New Deal solutions, whick Kennedy said NO. He instead picked the conservative options of growth and retraining.[[User:RJJensen|RJJensen]] 01:26, 9 November 2009 (EST)
::On unemployment remedies: that was a major issue in 1960-61 and liberals wanted a return to the New Deal solutions, whick Kennedy said NO. He instead picked the conservative options of growth and retraining.[[User:RJJensen|RJJensen]] 01:26, 9 November 2009 (EST)
::on Test ban: JFK and his closest advisers not only seriously discussed but also actively pursued the possibility of a joint military action with the Soviet Union against China's nuclear installations in early 1963. In their quest for a limited nuclear test ban, Kennedy and his associates sought to aggravate tensions between the Soviet Union and China to a point where the Soviets might join with the United States in a military act against China. see the important article by Gordon H. Chang "JFK, China, and the Bomb" ''Journal of American History'' 1988 74(4): 1287-1310 [[User:RJJensen|RJJensen]] 01:31, 9 November 2009 (EST)