ABSTRACT
Robert Francis Kennedy was on record and in practice as thoroughly committed to building a new progressive coalition on domestic issues from ending poverty to advancing civil rights, as well as working to end the war in Vietnam. In the 1960s, the nation was rapidly moving toward accepting a second bill, not through constitutional amendment but through the Supreme Court's interpretation of the existing Constitution". Taken together, the Franklin Roosevelt and John Fitzgerald Kennedy legacy is one that can be viewed as one that sought to embark upon putting into place a "Global New Deal." John Kennedy set forth an economic strategy that was in the stream of the history of the 1960s and could be compared to Roosevelt's, but John Kennedy's went far beyond Roosevelt's statement of goals by producing an actual program to achieve those goals. By 1961, John Kennedy had already renounced and denounced the imperial and colonial policies of Great Britain and France.
