ABSTRACT
The task of leadership for a president is to manage events so that some of those streams are responsive to touch. Democrats thought it possible for government to stimulate the economy for dynamic growth according to new economic theories. The idea of containment of the Soviet Union in its satellite states in Eastern Europe and of adventurism in third-world nations abroad, derived from the Truman administration, was accepted by Eisenhower. The Joint Economic Committee of Congress had published studies before the election that called for tax cuts and temporary deficits, which would create demand and revive the economy, while making up deficits. Civil rights problems were given to Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, who tried to balance the contradictions. The historian John Lewis Gaddis points out a contradiction within Kennedy's foreign policy. Nikita Khrushchev had climbed over the backs of his rivals to the top of the greasy pole of the Soviet government by 1961.
