john kenneth galbraith despised harry truman. they wanted him off the ticket in 1948. they hope to induce eisenhower to run even though they had no idea whatsoever what eisenhower represented that he was in truman. truman was too much of a normal guy. but what they liked about kennedy now think about it, kennedy's father joe kennedy had not been a very pleasant guy during world war ii. robert kennedy worked for joe mccarthy so what was so appealing about this? willows appealing about this guy was he was not ordinary. he came out of the middle classes and represented something of elevating american tastes. the big change is the addition of public-sector unionism. liberalism as we once knew it as an electoral force collapsed with the tromping of mcgovernism and then reagan's, reagan and the republicans three electoral victories but liberalism reconstructs itself in the 1990s when labor reconstructs itself around public-sector unionism. that is why i say what happened in newark as an expression of this trend. andy stern the guy who created the force for what it is said an

we had become, in john kenneth galbraith's famous words, the affluent society. however, this the midst of this nation of prosperity, there was also, quote, the other america as author michael harrington called it. fully one-fifth of our population trapped in poverty across ap haven cha, in urban ghettos, in large swaths of rural america. millions of american children were being raised in shacks and slums, going to bed hungry, attending grossly-substandard schools. worse, experts described this poverty as intractable. experts warned that despite the nation's overall prosperity, poverty was growing more widespread. because, as one study put it, the poor were, quote: not part of the economic structure. a then-report by the president's council of economic advisers asserted that, quote: future economic growth alone will provide relatively few escapes from poverty. end quote. economic growth alone, they said, will not solve the issue of poverty. of course, i must add it's very much the same today, isn't it, mr. president? economic growth alone will provide few escapes