John F. Kennedy on VoteMatch

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Favors topic 1: Abortion is a woman's unrestricted right (+2 points on Social scale)	Supply funds for international birth control studies: Favors topic 1 Find simple, effective, inexpensive fertility control: Favors topic 1 Help population control abroad with methods of their choice: Favors topic 1
Strongly Favors topic 2: Legally require hiring women & minorities (-5 points on Economic scale)	Promised to end segregation; LBJ fulfilled promise: Favors topic 2 1961: created Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity: Strongly Favors topic 2 We should not counsel patience and delay on equal rights: Strongly Favors topic 2 Courage to apply equal rights to minorities: Strongly Favors topic 2 Encouraged federal offices to hire blacks: Strongly Favors topic 2 1960s: hasten school desegregation; integrate public places: Strongly Favors topic 2 1960: Called Martin Luther King's wife when MLK was jailed: Strongly Favors topic 2 Impatient for school desegregation in early 1960s: Strongly Favors topic 2 Civil rights in public, not private intermarriage: Favors topic 2 Executive action for immediate civil rights progress: Strongly Favors topic 2
No opinion on topic 3: Comfortable with same-sex marriage (0 points on Social scale)	(No votes on which to base response)
Strongly Opposes topic 4: Keep God in the public sphere (+5 points on Social scale)	Pray ourselves, if courts won't allow school prayer: Strongly Opposes topic 4 1960: separate Catholic identity from public life: Strongly Opposes topic 4
Strongly Favors topic 5: Expand ObamaCare (-5 points on Economic scale)	Attempted unsuccessfully to create retirement-based Medicare: Strongly Favors topic 5
Opposes topic 6: Privatize Social Security (-3 points on Economic scale)	1962: Increased minimum wage and Social Security benefits: Opposes topic 6 1961: liberalize social security to help end recession: Opposes topic 6 Put medical care for the aged under Social Security: Opposes topic 6
Strongly Opposes topic 7: Vouchers for school choice (-5 points on Economic scale)	1950s: Supported federal aid to parochial schools: Strongly Favors topic 7 Refused any federal financial help to parochial schools: Strongly Opposes topic 7 Refused any federal financial help to parochial schools: Strongly Opposes topic 7 Liberty without learning is always in peril: Opposes topic 7 Aid to Education Bill defeated when private schools excluded: Strongly Opposes topic 7 1963 Higher Education Act: more grants; more colleges: Strongly Opposes topic 7 Comprehensive education from pre-school to post-college: Opposes topic 7
Strongly Opposes topic 8: Fight EPA regulatory over-reach (+5 points on Social scale)	1962: Supported anti-DDT conclusions of "Silent Spring": Strongly Opposes topic 8 Investigated claims against DDT, which led to its ban: Strongly Opposes topic 8 Youth Conservation Corps: develop outdoor resources: Strongly Opposes topic 8 Invest in facilities for the important resources of the seas: Strongly Opposes topic 8
Favors topic 9: Stricter punishment reduces crime (-3 points on Social scale)	New weapons to combat organized crime: Favors topic 9
No opinion on topic 10: Absolute right to gun ownership (0 points on Economic scale)	(No votes on which to base response)
Favors topic 11: Higher taxes on the wealthy (-3 points on Economic scale)	1962: Paradoxically raise revenues by cutting tax rates: Opposes topic 11 Heavy deficit spending to recover from 1961 recession: Favors topic 11 Tax reduction is first part of assault on unemployment: Opposes topic 11 1961: We need tax cut to keep drive from running out of gas: Opposes topic 11 1963: Tax cut first; then expenditures program: Strongly Favors topic 11 Shift tax payments of large corporations to a current time: Favors topic 11 Lower top income tax rate from 91% to 65%: Favors topic 11 Apply withholding requirements to dividends & interest: Favors topic 11
Favors topic 12: Pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens (+2 points on Social scale)	America's capacity to absorb immigration is limited: Opposes topic 12 Don't make over the face of America with immigration: Opposes topic 12 1950s: Voted for liberalized immigration laws: Favors topic 12 We say same of Mexicans that we said about Irish & Italians: Favors topic 12 Opponents have called to stop immigration since 1797: Strongly Favors topic 12 Limiting specific nations defies "all men are created equal": Strongly Favors topic 12 National origin quotas are indefensible racial preferences: Strongly Favors topic 12 Remove distinction between native-born & naturalized citizen: Strongly Favors topic 12
Favors topic 13: Support & expand free trade (+2 points on Economic scale)	Sell surplus wheat to Russia to alleviate food shortages: Favors topic 13 Every industry wants higher tariffs on competitors: Favors topic 13 Send surplus wheat to Russians, while subsidizing US farmers: Opposes topic 13 New instrument of trade policy with European Common Market: Favors topic 13 No need for restrictive trade policies: Favors topic 13 Persuade other countries not to restrict our goods coming in: Favors topic 13
Strongly Opposes topic 14: Support American Exceptionalism (-5 points on Economic scale)	1957: Supported Algeria's struggle for independence: Opposes topic 14 "World safe for diversity", instead of "safe for democracy": Strongly Opposes topic 14 1961: Created the Peace Corps: Strongly Opposes topic 14 Alianza para el Progreso: development aid for Latin America: Opposes topic 14 Peace Corps carries spirit of America abroad: Strongly Opposes topic 14
Favors topic 15: Expand the military (-3 points on Social scale)	Increase military spending to fight domino effect in SE Asia: Favors topic 15 1963: Test Ban Treaty: no nukes in space nor oceans: Opposes topic 15 Defense spending should not be limited by budget amount: Strongly Favors topic 15 Increased defense spending, but also increased efficiency: Favors topic 15 Increased anti-guerilla forces; founded the Green Berets: Favors topic 15 More air-lift; more submarines; more missiles: Strongly Favors topic 15
No opinion on topic 16: Make voter registration easier (0 points on Social scale)	(No votes on which to base response)
Opposes topic 17: Avoid foreign entanglements (-3 points on Social scale)	Any Cuban missile launched anywhere is an attack on the US: Opposes topic 17 1963: Negotiated first, limited Nuclear Test Ban: Favors topic 17 1963: Planned to remove all troops from Vietnam by 1965: Favors topic 17 No US troops to Taiwan to defend Quemoy and Matsu: Opposes topic 17 Pouring money into jungles of Indochina is self-destructive: Favors topic 17 Defend vital interests while preventing nuclear holocaust: Favors topic 17 Pressure the USSR without causing them public humiliation: Opposes topic 17 Trading missiles in Cuba for Jupiters in Turkey is a threat: Opposes topic 17 USSR removes missiles from Cuba; US ends blockade & invasion: Opposes topic 17 Free the Americas of all foreign domination and all tyranny: Opposes topic 17 Negotiate with USSR from a position of strength: Opposes topic 17 1949: Stop onrushing tide of communism from engulfing Asia: Opposes topic 17 Bay of Pigs defeat enhanced Castro's stature: Opposes topic 17
Strongly Favors topic 18: Prioritize green energy (-5 points on Economic scale)	1963 tax bill: remove loopholes favoring oil companies: Strongly Favors topic 18 Supplement oil resources with atomic energy: Favors topic 18 Cut oil depletion allowance for largest producers: Favors topic 18
Favors topic 19: Marijuana is a gateway drug (-3 points on Social scale)	Crack down on the illicit sale of habit-forming drugs: Favors topic 19
Favors topic 20: Stimulus better than market-led recovery (-3 points on Economic scale)	Moving away from New Deal means tax cuts & strong dollar: Strongly Opposes topic 20 Heavy deficit spending to recover from 1961 recession: Strongly Favors topic 20 Steady rise in expenditures as economic stimulus: Strongly Favors topic 20 1961: Added 13-week unemployment benefits in recession: Strongly Favors topic 20 Cut personal & corporate taxes to stimulate economy: Strongly Opposes topic 20 Economic stimulus took us from recession to recovery: Strongly Favors topic 20 More interested in federal programs than in cutting deficit: Strongly Favors topic 20 Government programs help people do what they can't do alone: Strongly Favors topic 20

John F. Kennedy is a Liberal Populist
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