70 Year Magazine Archive

The Hundred Days are Here Again

by Robert Schuchman

It’s Kennedy, in a landslide. And the New Frontiersmen are on the move. Want a job? They’re up for auction, what are we hid?

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ANnouncer: Ladies and gentlemen, we are privileged to present tonight the event which will determine the course of America’s future in the years to come. As he promised the American people on the eve of his election last month, President-elect Kennedy will inaugurate the Era of the New Frontier by selecting the men who will constitute his cabinet according to the principles of true social democracy—the great principles of true social democracy—the great principles of Lincoln, Bryan and Chester Bowles.

We can see many hundreds of courageous Frontiersmen here in the Grand Ballroom of the Conrad Hilton. Our new President is about to be introduced by the Chairman of the Democratic National Committee. We now take you to the rostrum, where Senator Jackson is speaking. . . .

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