John F. Kennedy Quotes
What would Alex Rose do to us in the next election, Jackie?
Alex Rose was the leader of the Hatters’ Union. At the time most women and men wore hats out of doors and many women wore hats indoors as well.
John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963, 35th President of the United States (Democrat, MA), Statement to his wife who was dressed for a daytime event but she was not wearing a hat, Quoted on C-SPAN First Ladies, July 27, 2013
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During the last days of the 1912 "Bull Moose" campaign, President Taft's running mate, Taft’s Vice President James S. Sherman, died just before election day. Nicholas Butler was asked to take his place on the Republican ballot; he agreed with this famous condition. The election was won by Democrat Woodrow Wilson and Butler was off the hook.
Diebold was the manufacturer of Computerized Voting Machines which had more than 130,000 in service by 2006 serving millions of voters. The University of Maryland and others had done studies on the Diebold machines and demonstrated that there were a number of different ways that the vote count could be tampered with by someone wishing to control the vote results. Although not illegal for a voting machine manufacturer with knowledge of how to rig their voting machines, this quotation was used by the many people who opposed computerized voting machines generically and many who suspected a strong partisan vote rigging capability to support their positions.
On election night in 1960 the vice presidential candidate phoned his running mate to discuss the returns:
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.
