Episode 24 Hour of Decision: JFK: Who was this man? Pt. 1 His crooked path to the White House
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Who was JFK? Amoral politician with no beliefs and a lot of enemies? A standard liberal Democrat? A Fabian socialist? A cold warrior and neoconservative type? A man of the Left who wanted to dismantle our cold war institutions? You can easily find at least one or more authors who advance one of these conclusions. We examine the contradictory currents running through his political life which have caused people with drastically different views to feel an affinity with him.
JFK’s father Joseph P. Kennedy was one of the wealthiest men in America. He had been an early funder of FDR, and planned to run for president in 1940. But FDR decided to run for a third term. Meanwhile Kennedy, the Ambassador to England as the European war was beginning, came out strongly against the idea of war with Hitler. In defying both FDR and Churchill, The senior Kennedy killed any future political ambitions he might have had and ended his public life.
Joseph Kennedy then planned to set up his son Joe, Jr in politics, but he died in the war. The mantle then fell on JFK. JFK returned from WWII and won election to the Congress in 1946. Family friend Sen. Joe McCarthy aided JFK’s 1952 senate victory by refusing to help his opponent.
JFK’s White House quest, driven by brother Bobby, featured moves to both the left and the right. They made deals with southern segregationists to gain convention delegates. JFK found support from Marxist United Auto Workers head Walter Reuther, and endorsed the Marxist revolution in Algeria against France, to bolster weak support on the left. JFK’s senate committee, responding to public outrage over union corruption, investigated the mob-connected Teamsters, but not the left-wing UAW, who was conducting a violence-filled strike against the Kohler company.
As the 1960 presidential campaign began Joseph Kennedy was spending unheard of amounts of money and JFK’s poll numbers steadily rose. The Catholic JFK won a convincing primary victory in W. Virginia, where 95% of voters were protestant, muting the religious question hovering over the campaign. However, JFK outspent his opponent 75 to 1 to do it, and may have used organized crime to “get out the vote.”
In 1960, 80% of national delegates who would determine the party nominee were selected by party regulars, sometimes in backrooms. The Kennedys’ national network and bottomless supply of cash gave their huge army of operatives many methods of persuasion. On the eve of the national convention, former president Harry Truman held a national press conference decrying the pressure being put on delegates by the JFK campaign.
The ruthless methods of JFK’s team were evident from coast to coast. JFK was loose with some facts in his televised debates with Richard Nixon while his charisma dominated these encounters. Both candidates supported internationalism and some expansion of the role of the federal government. JFK won by a razor-thin margin and Nixon refused to pursue allegations of voter fraud.
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Episode 26 Hour of Decision: JFK: Who was this man? Part Two: A precarious presidency
Jack Kennedy beat Richard Nixon in 1960, well, maybe. His health was holding, for now. His sex adventures would remain hidden, wouldn’t they? It was all a bit precarious.
In part two of Hour of Decision’s JFK series we discuss Kennedy’s time in the White House.
There was Jackie, the First Lady. She was beautiful. She was the personification of calm elegance, a miracle, considering the kind of life Jack was leading--- a life that she was well aware of.
There was the press, who loved what they saw. JFK’s small children. Bobby, Teddy, and those sisters, Peter Lawford, and yes, Frank Sinatra. The Kennedys were almost overloading the glamor meter. With JFK’s soaring rhetoric about living in a new time with endless possibilities, unattached to the limitations and base realities of politics….
-----------all this led to the fawning press describing the Kennedy White House as some kind of Fairy Tale, as Camelot, from the King Arthur stories. Unfortunately, this image was belied by the Kennedys’ political ruthlessness, and more so by JFKs unbelievable unfaithfulness, and the recklessness involved with it.
JFK surrounded himself with standard globalists and Fabian socialists. Both his foreign and domestic policy was well within the establishment paradigm. His domestic achievements from a Democrat viewpoint were limited. Khrushchev, the Soviet tyrant, overmatched him in negotiations. The Cuban Missile crisis was not a big win. Communists made gains in Cuba, Tibet, Laos, Congo, and of course, Vietnam.
Walter Reuther forced JFK’s hand and he finally introduced a comprehensive civil rights bill, which had an uncertain future at the time of the president’s death. Kennedy nervously contemplated his 1964 re-election campaign. He faced the prospect of losing “the solid south” of white voters, rising unemployment, and growing problems in Vietnam as he confronted an energized GOP base in the coming election.
Our final episode, JFK: Part Three will explore issues related to his enemies. Who were they? What motive and opportunity existed for each to kill an American president? Finally, we’ll talk about why JFK’s story is important today.
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Episode 4 America’s Enemies: China | Hour of Decision
Author J.R. Nyquist returns to Hour of Decision to discuss the threat to America coming from China (the PRC), and their longterm relationship with the former Soviet Union, and now Russia. It’s not what you’ve been told. Lew Moore is the host of Hour of Decision on NewsForAmerica at newsforamerica.org. J.R.’s books can be found on Amazon. He is creating written, audio, and video content regularly at jrnyquist.blog.
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Episode 3 America’s Enemies: Russia | Hour of Decision
Lew Moore hosts author J.R. Nyquist for the first of several interviews concerning threats to America and their origins. In this episode J.R. draws on decades of study and interaction with high-ranked Soviet defectors to provide background and analysis concerning present-day Russia, the former Soviet Union, and their expertise in strategic deception. More information can be found at newsforamerica.org. J.R.’s book’s can be found on Amazon. He is creating written, audio, and video content regularly at jrnyquist.blog.
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Episode 11 Hour of Decision: Larry Stickney: A Grassroots Warrior
Lew interviews longtime friend and political ally Larry Stickney, who describes what it’s like to be a patriot activist/organizer in deeply blue western Washington state. Larry has helped elect several conservative state legislators and county commissioners, and then worked for them in their government roles. In 2012, he led a referendum effort gathering 120,000 signatures more than was required to put defending traditional marriage on the ballot, falling just short of victory in November. A few years later Larry did a brief stint in Texas as a leader in the John Birch Society, returning to the Tacoma area to continue the fight. Recently, Larry strongly defended his son Matthew, who was recently arrested in the latest FBI round-up of J6 protestors. He currently works for Pierce County (WA) Council Member Amy Cruver.
https://nypost.com/2023/12/28/news/matthew-stickneys-dad-couldnt-be-prouder-of-his-jan-6-charges/
To donate to Matthew Stickney’s defense fund go to: givesendgo.com/GBHQX
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HOUR OF DECISION WITH LEW MOORE EPISODE 2: AMERICA’S BIGGEST THREAT: MASSIVE GOVERNMENT SPENDING
What is the biggest threat to America? Cancel culture? Public school brainwashing? Election shenanigans? Open borders? Host Lew Moore argues the crisis we face today has many causes, but the single biggest threat on the horizon is the federal government’s unbelievably wreckless spending. We are heading for the destruction of the dollar and the massive chaos that will ensue. We are losing the reserve currency status that has maintained our debt-ridden standard of living. At minimum, drastically increased interest rates are in our future. Worse, the spector of hyper-inflation, Weimar Republic style, is a growing possibility as the FED prints money with nothing behind it. We need to stop the massive spending, but Joe Biden, in an election year, has his foot on the accelerator and Congress is doing nothing to stop it. Time to hedge with precious metals, accumulate goods people will trade for, and otherwise get ready for the disruptions that are likely. Go to newsforamerica.org for information you need in this national crisis.
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HOUR OF DECISION WITH LEW MOORE EPISODE 1 “INTRODUCTION”
Lew Moore has been in a lot of political fights and has some things to say. He opens his new show with: “Its midnight in America and this is the hour of decision.” Will Americans wake up and choose to fight the tyranny that is engulfing us? When someone takes a stand, then what? Over time, the host will share his thoughts about what to know, what to do, and what to plan for. One promise: this show won’t pull punches and won’t be the same ole’ right-wing thing.
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Friends and Enemies with Jeff Nyquist: The Case of the Internal Enemy
In this video we will go over:
A game of friends and enemies.
A game of black and white pieces.
A game of win or lose.
A game fought on battlefields.
A game fought by spies, saboteurs, and infiltrators.
This is an important episode for you to watch and take in. We are currently watching these tactics take place in our country. To remain free, we must face these issues head on.
We don’t tell our contributors what to say. Therefore, the views they express are their own and not necessarily those of News for America.
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