Was JFK a conservative?
No, he was not.
One contemporary author, Ira Stoll, has made this claim in a new book, but no conservative thinker alive during JFK presidency ever expressed the thought,
In fact, the leading voices of the American right in the early 1960 including Clare Booth Luce, William F. Buckley, William Rusher, and Barry Goldwater reviled Kennedy for his liberal po…
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