John F Kennedy in a speech to the Democratic Party, July 1960 New Frontier was originally Kennedy’s campaign slogan. It represented a series of challenges in the USA that he promised to deal with.

To secure the presidential nomination in 1960, JFK had to win over West Virginia voters. His triumphant run may have been ...

A modern presidential campaign is a pitch for an American future — think John F. Kennedy’s “New Frontier,” or Ronald Reagan’s “Morning in America,” or Barack Obama’s vision of a ...

On the domestic front, the U.S. economy was not behaving as well as expected, and the future of Kennedy’s New Frontier programs was in doubt; the President had just about given up hope that ...

and cabinet meeting , August 5 , 1965. Courtesy: Library of Congress Elected president in 1960, Kennedy had campaigned on an idealistic New Frontier platform. The president believed that by ...