JOHN F. KENNEDY JFK Signed Autographed 1958 Democratic Luncheon Menu

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JOHN F. KENNEDY JFK Signed Autographed 1958 Democratic Luncheon Menu.
1958 signed program from Parkersburg, WV: Wood County Democratic Executive Committee luncheon at the Chancellor Hotel
Author: Kennedy, John F.
Title: 1958 signed program from Parkersburg, WV: Wood County Democratic Executive Committee luncheon at the Chancellor Hotel
Publication: Parkersburg WV: Wood County Democratic Executive Committee, 1958
Description: Wraps. 9 x 6 inches, stapled stiff wraps with interested deckled red fore-edges, very good, minor soil to covers, SIGNED by Kennedy on front cover, 8 pp, with frontispiece portrait of Kennedy, roster of Democratic candidates up for general election in November, menu (steak and potatoes), program (song, invocation, introduction, speech, benediction, and one last song) and 3 pp. list of committee members. A fine bold signature. Already, JFK was pointing out the differences between Republicans and Democrats, which have now in 2022 become even more stark. For those who wish to read his remarks given at Parkersburg, we have provided the first several paragraphs: "We are gathered here to discuss the issues of the campaign that will reach its climax in the months ahead. Some of the political pundits have been saying that this is a strange campaign:that there is no way of telling whether the country would be better off with a Repblican [sic] or a Democratic Congress. That kind of analysis, in my opinion, is wholly superficial. It is true that the Democratic 85th Congress achieved a remarkable record of supporting the President of the United States on the key parts of his program. It is true that the Republican 83rd Congress did not support the President nearly as well. It is true, too, that Democratic votes and leadership were necessary to save the Presidents [sic] trade and aid programs, our participation in the international labor organization, and our contribution to United Nations Point Four technical assistance. It is particularly true that the Republicans are completely out of ammunition in this campaign. Heretofore they have dealt in irresponsible accusations concerning Democratic administrations and foreign wars:they have reserved for themselves the title of the Party of Peace:but now American troops patrol Lebanon, American warships patrol the Formosan Straits, and we have teetered consistently on the brink of foreign wars on [no] Americans wants or could even explain. Heretofore the Republicans have tried to make an issue of corruption in government:but no longer does Mr. Nixon defy us to name him once case of Republican corruption, no longer does Mr. Eisenhower promise prompt action on any wrongdoers in his own official family. The best they can say now is that Democratic administrations fined the wrongdoers and prosecuted them, while Republicans treat them more kindly. Heretofore the Republicans have irresponsibly assailed the Democrats as the protectors of unscrupulous labor bosses:but when the votes were counted in the House of Representatives on the labor reform bill that would have put Jimmy Hoffa and his lilk [sic] out of business, more than two-thirds of the Democrats supported the Kennedy-Ives bill while nearly four-fifths of the Republicans opposed it. Heretofore the Republicans have accused the Democrats of being anti-business:they have relied upon the businessmen of America for their funds and their votes:but the record now shows that it was the Democratic 85th Congress that brought tax relief to 98 per cent of the firms in this country and made permanent a strengthened Small Business Administration, and that when the Democrats went further, in the amendment offered by Senator Fulbright and sought to make corporate income taxes more gradual for small business, it was defeated by the opposition of two-thirds of the Senate Republicans. Heretofore the Republicans have insisted that they were the party of sound money and balanced budgets:but the record of the present administration shows the worst peacetime inflation in our history, a series of unbalanced budgets despite cuts by the Democratic Congresses, an increase in the number of alphabet agencies and non-defense employees, and a Democratic Congress which, in its last session, managed to fill the gaps and shortcomings of the Eisenhower program and still keep total non-defense appropriations nearly .5 billion below the amount requested by the President." / very good.