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Since 1789, the United States has seen almost 40 different presidents, different men with diverse ways of handling situations of improving the states and the world around us. A handful of the presidents have been through war and other serious crises like poverty, civil rights, and scandals. Four presidents that have experienced these circumstances are Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, and Reagan. John Fitzgerald Kennedy entered the office in 1960, retiring the older so called “uncle” of the White House, Dwight Eisenhower. Kennedy followed in the footsteps of FDR and named his domestic plan the New Frontier. There were a few main things he zeroed in on which were a higher minimum wage, low-cost-housing legislation, hospital insurance for retirees, and federal assistance for public schools. Only two items on the ‘must’ list were new: aid to ‘depressed areas’ and a program to retrain the unemployed (Unger 23). One thing that stood in the way of the New Frontier was the close Democratic to Republican ratio in Congress. “…Democratic majority would be 65 to 35 in the Senate and 262 to 174 in the House” (Unger 23). This did not hurt Kennedy too much because according to Making America, “By 1963 Congress had appro