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Summer Session Kansan Tuesday, July 31, 1962
Kennedy's1960ThemeSong Not So Melodious Today
By Lyle C. Wilson United Press International
WASHINGTON — A theme-song promise from the 1960 oratory with which candidate John F. Kennedy charmed voters is echoing again over the land, slightly off key.
It is candidate Kennedy's promise to get America moving again. There were other campaign themes that might have returned to haunt the President. There was his constant chiding of President Eisenhower for withholding a mere stroke of the pen by which racial segregation could have been barred forever from federally-aided housing.
THERE WAS THE commitment to other bold and far-reaching civil rights action by Congressional legislation. Republican campaigners were out-classed by Kennedy's gleaming phrases and socko punch lines. That could have been the margin of his slim victory.
It is Kennedy's promise to get the country moving, however, that has been translated by circumstances into a passionate 1962 campaign issue. Even the Republicans were impressed by candidate Kennedy's campaign performance and his early months in office. The opposition was almost of a mind to give up.
But there has developed in the past few months a ripple of Republican confidence that Kennedy and the Democrats are not unbeatable. During Kennedy's first year of office there was no evidence of Republican confidence that their party
could get up off the floor. They had no hope. They now have much hope and some confidence.
THE FOUNDATION for this Republican hope and confidence began in a small way with the disastrous attempt to invade Cuba. It gained when Kennedy smote U.S. Steel. The multi-billion dollar stock market plunge brought a bloom to Republican prospects like a transfusion of blood.
The squabble between the 83-year-old chairman of the House Appropriations Committee and his 84-year-old opposite number in the Senate was a sad, sour and ridiculous contest of wills. This dispute about which should first tip his hat to the other cost the Democrats votes and they know it.
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even to get the Democratic Congress moving. Republicans have begun to campaign on the theme that he can't get the country moving, either. So the campaign is on to turn against the Democrats in 1962 candidate Kennedy's best-advertised 1960 campaign promise.
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For these reasons, Republicans are beginning to convince themselves that they have a chance this year to win the House. If they do that, the Republicans reasonably might hope to lick Kennedy in 1964. It won't be easy. He may be the smartest politician of the lot.
All of this recalls President Eisenhower's comment after President-elect Kennedy's first White House visit. Ike was impressed by the scope and flair of his successor. But over a scotch and soda, he remarked to a few friends: "I don't believe that young man knows what he is up against." To that Kennedy now might say "Amen."
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