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Tag Archives: John F. Kennedy
Book Write-Up: Keynes Hayek, by Nicholas Wapshott
Nicholas Wapshott. Keynes Hayek: The Clash That Defined Modern Economics. New York and London: W.W. Norton and Company, 2011. See here to buy the book. John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich Hayek were economists who profoundly impacted the twentieth century, and … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, George W. Bush, Political Philosophy, Politics, Ronald Reagan
Tagged Ayn Rand, conservatism, deficit spending, economics, Franklin Roosevelt, Friedrich Hayek, George W. Bush, John F. Kennedy, John Maynard Keynes, Keynes Hayek, Keynesianism, libertarianism, Margaret Thatcher, Milton Friedman, Nicholas Wapshott, Road to Serfdom, ronald reagan, Tax Cuts
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Persuasion; National Institution
I have three items on my latest reading of W.A. Swanberg’s Norman Thomas: The Last Idealist. Norman Thomas was a six-time Socialist candidate for President of the United States. 1. I wondered in my last post how Thomas proposed to … Continue reading
Posted in Communism, Political Philosophy, Politics, Religion
Tagged John F. Kennedy, Norman Thomas, socialism, Tito
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Norman Thomas on Eisenhower, Guatemala, and Kennedy
I have three items for my write-up today on W.A. Swanberg’s biography of Norman Thomas, the six-time Socialist candidate for President of the United States. The biography is entitled Norman Thomas: The Last Idealist. 1. Norman Thomas was concerned about … Continue reading
Posted in Communism, History, Politeia Paper, Political Philosophy
Tagged Dwight Eisenhower, Israel, Jacqueline Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, John Foster Dulles, Norman Thomas, Richard Nixon, Suez, Syria
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Six Crises 14
My latest reading of Richard Nixon’s 1962 book, Six Crises, focused on Nixon’s response to losing the 1960 Presidential election. Nixon tries to be a good loser. Well, actually, he says that he hates losing, and he also has a … Continue reading
Posted in History, Political Philosophy, Politics, Race, Social Skills
Tagged Chief Newman, John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Sherman Adams, Six Crises
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Six Crises 13
On pages 367-368 of his 1962 book Six Crises, Richard Nixon talks about the religion issue in the 1960 Presidential election, specifically the fears that a number of Americans had that John F. Kennedy, who was a Roman Catholic, would … Continue reading
Posted in History, Politics, Religion
Tagged John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Six Crises
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Ambrose’s Nixon: The Education of a Politician 20
In my write-up today on Stephen Ambrose’s Nixon: The Education of a Politician, I’ll talk about Fidel Castro, the Communist leader of Cuba. Fidel Castro replaced Fulgencio Batista as leader of Cuba on January 1, 1959. Four months later, the … Continue reading
Posted in Communism, History, Political Philosophy, Politics
Tagged Dwight Eisenhower, FDR, Fidel Castro, George Marshall, John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Stephen Ambrose, Thomas Dewey
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Ambrose’s Nixon: The Education of a Politician 19
In my write-up today on Stephen Ambrose’s Nixon: The Education of a Politician, I’ll use as my starting-point something that Ambrose says on page 564: “When Eisenhower returned from his visit to Nixon’s bedside, he told Ann Whitman [who was … Continue reading
Posted in Asperger's, Politics, Social Skills
Tagged Ann Whitman, Bebe Rebozo, Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Stephen Ambrose
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James' Ramblings 