Election of 1960
- The campaign of 1960 produced two young candidates who claimed to offer the nation active leadership.
- The Republican nomination went almost uncontested to Vice President Richard Nixon, who promised moderate reform.
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy was the son of the wealthy powerful, and highly controversial Joseph P. Kennedy, former American ambassador to Britain.
- He premised his campaign, he said, “on the single assumption that the American people are uneasy at the present drift in our national course”.
- Kennedy had campaigned promising a set of domestic reforms more ambitious than any since the New Deal, a program he described as the “New Frontier”.