SENATOR KENNEDY WARNS AGAINST A NIXON PRESIDENCY & CRITICIZES EISENHOWER ADMINISTRATION
Camden, New Jersey (JFK+50) On June 23, 1960, Associated Press reports that last evening Senator John F. Kennedy (D-Massachusetts) said in a speech given here in Camden...
"I don't think we should turn this country over to Vice-President Nixon in this critical time."
Senator Kennedy also criticized the administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower accusing it of being "frozen in the ice of its own indifference."
JFK+50 NOTE
JFK was critical during the 1960 presidential campaign of Ike's "lack of vigor" & claimed America had been "standing still" for the past eight years. When he became POTUS, JFK quipped that "things are just as bad as we said they were."
SOURCE
"Don't Turn Nation Over To Nixon, Kennedy Says," The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., June 23, 1960, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
