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KENNEDY, John F. Typed document signed ("John F. Kennedy"), as President, New York, 14 September 1960. ACCEPTANCE OF THE LIBERAL PARTY NOMINATION FOR PRESIDENT. 1 page, folio, with New York Department of State filing stamp in top right.
JFK ACCEPTS THE LIBERAL PARTY NOMINATION FOR PRESIDENT IN 1960. After cruising to victory at the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles in July, JFK was hard at work in the general campaign against GOP nominee, Vice-president Richard M. Nixon. But Kennedy pauses long enough to record his official acceptance of the Liberal Party nomination for the Presidency. Which his campaign filed with the New York Department of State on 19 September 1960. Liberal support was by no means a sure thing for this nominee. Many old New Deal-Roosevelt Democrats remembered the political sins of Kennedy's father, Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy, who broke with FDR over aiding the British in the early days of World War II. Mrs. Roosevelt, the grand dame of New York liberals, was a staunch Stevenson supporter. Yet Kennedy carried New York State in November--and did so with the support of the old New Deal urban-labor-black coalition that worked so well for FDR.
JFK ACCEPTS THE LIBERAL PARTY NOMINATION FOR PRESIDENT IN 1960. After cruising to victory at the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles in July, JFK was hard at work in the general campaign against GOP nominee, Vice-president Richard M. Nixon. But Kennedy pauses long enough to record his official acceptance of the Liberal Party nomination for the Presidency. Which his campaign filed with the New York Department of State on 19 September 1960. Liberal support was by no means a sure thing for this nominee. Many old New Deal-Roosevelt Democrats remembered the political sins of Kennedy's father, Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy, who broke with FDR over aiding the British in the early days of World War II. Mrs. Roosevelt, the grand dame of New York liberals, was a staunch Stevenson supporter. Yet Kennedy carried New York State in November--and did so with the support of the old New Deal urban-labor-black coalition that worked so well for FDR.