AFL-CIO ASKS JFK TO BE A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE
Boston, Massachusetts (JFK+50) On October 9, 1959, Senator John F. Kennedy spoke to the delegates of the second convention of the Massachusetts Labor Council of the AFL-CIO here in Boston. The address was given at the Statler-Hilton Hotel.
Senator Kennedy said that he planed to introduce a bill to raise the minimum wage and to increase unemployment compensation.
Union president, William J. Belanger, introduced a resolution asking Senator Kennedy to be a candidate for President of the United States in 1960.
In response, JFK said...
"In Ecclesiastes it says: 'There is a time to fish & a time to cut bait'....
I believe this is the time to fish and January 1960 (will be) the time to cut bait."
JFK+50 NOTE
I want to wish my Dad, Roy G. White, a happy 95th birthday. He was born in Knoxville, Tennessee on October 9, 1923. RGW served in the medical corps of the US Army during WWII, stationed in the South Pacific.
Mavis & Roy White
Knoxville, TN
Photo by John White
