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Roosevelt and Kennedy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 February 2011
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Historical analogies are often misleading, but the character of John F. Kennedy's administration can be usefully illuminated by consideration of the points of resemblance which it bears to the peacetime administrations of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Superficially of course the influx of intellectuals into the federal capital in the winter of 1960–1961 recalls the gathering of the brain-trusters in Washington in 1933. But there are two more fundamental aspects of the Kennedy presidency which remind the observer of the Roosevelt period. These are the philosophy of the New Frontier, with its conscious overtones of the New Deal and its radical challenge to the traditions of laissez faire; and the political problem inherent in the composition of the Democratic party.
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