"Cares about the Welfare of the People—Their Health, Their Housing, Their Schools, Their Jobs, Their Civil Rights, and Their Civil Liberties"

"JFK is a reminder that this wasn’t always so. Retrospectives on him inevitably include the witty press conferences, the white-tie White House dinners with the likes of Pablo Casals, the photos of John Jr. playing under the Oval Office desk. But the warm feelings Americans have toward Kennedy may be something more than nostalgia for a glamorous presidency cut short. They reflect a wistfulness for the sense of common purpose and faith in a collective project that a proudly liberal president helped the nation achieve."

David Greenberg in The New Republic reiterates John F. Kennedy's liberalism.