President Kennedy's Foreign Policy

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sgt_doom
Oct. 10 2016, 6:34 p.m.
Great and most important article.

Let’s go back a few decades, and President Kennedy has just gotten passed legislation called the Interest Equalization Tax, meant to encourage investors in investing in America, instead of overseas.

Next, on October 16, 1963, Rep. Wright Patman introduces the Patman Report to congress, a report on foundations and trusts and how they allow the super-rich to hide their ownership and wealth. This will provide ammunition for Kennedy’s proposed action to tax offshore monies of the super-rich. [The Patman Report: Tax-Exempt Foundations and Charitable Trusts: Their Impact on Our Economy]

On November 22, 1963, President Kennedy is murdered in Dallas.

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photosymbiosis ↪ sgt_doom
Oct. 10 2016, 8:14 p.m.
What was JFK really pushing for?

President John F. Kennedy brought up the issue of tax reduction in his 1963 State of the Union address. His initial plan called for a $13.5 billion tax cut through a reduction of the top income tax rate from 91% to 65%, reduction of the bottom rate from 20% to 14%, and a reduction in the corporate tax rate from 52% to 47%. The first attempt at passing the tax cuts was rejected by Congress in 1963. Conservatives revolted at giving Kennedy a key legislative victory before the election of 1964.

Sure, wealthy U.S. interests assassinated Kennedy because he boosted military spending and cut taxes on the wealthy and just loved Wall Street and the military-industrial complex too much. Some people will believe anything.

It’s just historical revisionism by the likes of Oliver Stone, sweet bedtimes stories for ‘liberals’ who need myths to believe in. JFK was a tool of the military-industrial complex, devoted to the war in Vietnam, servant of the wealthy and powerful – get over your misguided hero-worship, already.

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JFK diary calls Hitler 'stuff of legends'
23 March 2017
From the section US & Canada


Kennedy (far right) toured Europe after his military serviceImage copyrightGETTY IMAGES
Kennedy (far right) toured Europe after his military service

A diary kept by President John F Kennedy as a young man travelling in Europe, revealing his fascination with Adolf Hitler, is up for auction.
Kennedy, then 28, predicted "Hitler will emerge from the hatred that surrounds him now as one of the most significant figures who ever lived".
"He had in him the stuff of which legends are made," he continued.
Kennedy wrote the entry in the summer of 1945 after touring the German dictator's Bavarian mountain retreat.
It is thought by historians to be the only diary ever kept by the 35th US president.


The original copy will be auctioned for the first time on 26 April in Boston by longtime owner Deirdre Henderson, who worked as a research assistant for Kennedy while he was a US senator with White House ambitions.

He wrote that Hitler "had boundless ambition for his country which rendered him a menace to the peace of the world, but he had a mystery about him in the way he lived and in the manner of his death that will live and grow after him".
The 61-page diary was kept by Kennedy around four months after Hitler committed suicide.
At the time, the young American was touring Europe as a newspaper reporter after finishing his military service aboard a ship in the Pacific Ocean.


JFK also thought of Winston Churchill as his "idol"
Nearly two decades later Kennedy would address crowds in West Berlin as US president.
He gave Ms Henderson the diary in order to inform her of his views on foreign policy and national security, she said.
In a description of the auction, she wrote: "When JFK said that Hitler 'had in him the stuff of which legends are made', he was speaking to the mystery surrounding him, not the evil he demonstrated to the world."
"Nowhere in this diary, or in any of his writings, is there any indication of sympathy for Nazi crimes or cause," she continued.
The diary also contains JFK's thoughts about the British election and Winston Churchill, who Ms Henderson called his "idol".
The winning bid is expected to be around $200,000 (£160,000).

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canad ... ow_twitter

Couldn't find that old PI thread of Chlams where the liberals & such went crazy at the thought of slandering 'St John' but this'll do.

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Here's a flashback from DB Cooper:
Oh yeah, "man of peace"!

--Increased military advisers in Vietnam

--Orchestrated Bay of Pigs invasion

--Helped provoke the Cuban missile crisis by refusing to remove nuclear missiles in Turkey pointed at USSR

--Tried assassinating Castro on several occasions

--Had the CIA embark on violent political subversion in Latin America and elsewhere, including assassination and the training of right-wing death squads

Yeah, he was a regular Gandhi.

And the men (Dems) who followed, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, have been pro-war as well.

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The Kennedy Dems are in some ways the worst of the bunch. It ain't nothin' but hagiography, divorced from reality cept for the rabid anti-communism part, quite proud of that & better dead than Red...

Somebody compared Kennedy to Trump, which while incorrect is still hysterical. But I sure hope those KDs see it.