President Kennedy's domestic programs have a lot of heart. The heart throbs in soaring passages of presidential messages and speeches, in the busy comings and goings of his aides (Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg among the unemployed), and in departmental policy proclamations (the Interior Department's promised review of rising fuel oil and gas prices). But in the cardiograms of Kennedy's specific proposals to Congress, the heart is beating very slowly and deliberately, in deference to congressional low blood pressure about any bold New Frontier programs.
The big heart and the slow beat were evident...
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