JFK, Conservative on the Glenn Beck radio program

Glenn Beck had author Ira Stoll on his radio program this morning to discuss his new book JFK, Conservative which Blaze Books recently reviewed.

In the interview Ira makes the case to Glenn that JFK was a conservative by any standard, arguing:

...both in today’s world and by the standards of his time, he was a conservative...I mean Eleanor Roosevelt was asked in a 1958 television interview, ‘What would you do if the Democrats nominate a conservative like Kennedy and the Republicans nominated a liberal like Rockefeller?’ She said she hoped it didn’t come to that. The liberals at the time were protesting the Kennedy tax cuts and the escalation in Vietnam. Albert Gore, Sr., the democratic senator from Tennessee who is Bill Clinton’s vice president’s father, denounced the Kennedy tax cut plan as a bonanza for fat cats. John Kenneth Galbraith, the Keynesian Harvard economics professor who was Kennedy’s ambassador to India, goes back and met with Kennedy at the White House – he was for more government spending to stimulate the economy – and he went back to the White House mess after that meeting with Kennedy and he said to his fellow economists, ‘You know what, guys? You’ve won. The president finally told me to shut up about my opposition to the tax cut.’