KENNEDYS ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL IN WISCONSIN
Wausau, Wisconsin (JFK+50) On February 25, 1960, Senator John F. Kennedy and wife Jacqueline arrived by private airplane at the airport here in Wausau*. After an 8:30 a.m. news conference, the Kennedys were taken on a tour of central Wisconsin.
The Senator later spoke to a crowd of more than one thousand in downtown Wausau. The Democratic presidential candidate said...
"Today (we are) living better than ever before...more swimming pools, freezers, boats and air conditioning...but the 'test of our progress' said Franklin Roosevelt 'is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.'"
In Senator Kennedy's view, the United States was failing FDR's as well as the Democratic Party's "standard" of progress.
*Wausau is located on the Wisconsin River in the central part of the state. It was established in 1852 & by 1960 had a population of 31,943.
SOURCES
"Remarks of Senator John F. Kennedy, Wausau, Wisconsin, February 25, 1960," www.jfklibrary.org/
"When Wausau was Key Campaign stop for JFK," by Gary Gisselman, USA TODAY NETWORK-WISCONSIN, March 24, 2016, www.wausaudailyherald.com/
Wausau, Wisconsin (JFK+50) On February 25, 1960, Senator John F. Kennedy and wife Jacqueline arrived by private airplane at the airport here in Wausau*. After an 8:30 a.m. news conference, the Kennedys were taken on a tour of central Wisconsin.
The Senator later spoke to a crowd of more than one thousand in downtown Wausau. The Democratic presidential candidate said...
"Today (we are) living better than ever before...more swimming pools, freezers, boats and air conditioning...but the 'test of our progress' said Franklin Roosevelt 'is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.'"
In Senator Kennedy's view, the United States was failing FDR's as well as the Democratic Party's "standard" of progress.
*Wausau is located on the Wisconsin River in the central part of the state. It was established in 1852 & by 1960 had a population of 31,943.
SOURCES
"Remarks of Senator John F. Kennedy, Wausau, Wisconsin, February 25, 1960," www.jfklibrary.org/
"When Wausau was Key Campaign stop for JFK," by Gary Gisselman, USA TODAY NETWORK-WISCONSIN, March 24, 2016, www.wausaudailyherald.com/
Downtown Wausau
2009
Photo by Bobak Ha'Eri
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