John F. Kennedy Quotes
Can freedom be maintained under the most severe attack it has ever known? I think it can be. And I think in the final analysis it depends upon what we do here.
John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963, 35th President of the United States (Democrat, MA), Nixon-Kennedy Presidential Debate, 1960
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Tilden won the popular vote but was one vote short of the number he needed in the electoral college so the election was thrown into the House of Representatives. The Southern Democrats made a craven deal with the Republicans, whereby they would abandon Tilden and Vote for Rutherford Hayes, and Hays and the Republican Majority in Congress would remove all Federal Troops from Southern States. The Federal Troops were the only force that protected Black rights won after the Civil War, and the South wanted to disenfranchise the Blacks. Hays became president and kept his part of the immoral bargain. With the exception of this act that put the nail in the coffin of civil rights in America and sold out the Blacks for another 80 years. (Without Federal Troops, the KKK was the dominant force in the South.) Rutherford was a good President. But race was at the heart of this disputed and unfortunate election.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, often referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. Kennedy served at the height of the Cold War, and the majority of his work as president concerned relations with the Soviet Union and Cuba. A Democrat, Kennedy represented Massachusetts in both houses of the U.S. Congress prior to becoming president.
