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Abortion     Dwight Eisenhower: Population control abroad is not a US responsibility.     Ronald Reagan: As CA governor, reluctantly signed Therapeutic Abortion bill.     Martin Luther King: Family planning profoundly important for decent life.

Budget & Economy     John F. Kennedy: All presidents outspend their predecessors.     Martin Luther King: We must now begin to organize for guaranteed annual income.

Civil Rights     Lyndon Johnson: We Democrats feel sorry for gays; it's an illness.     John F. Kennedy: Executive action for immediate civil rights progress.     Strom Thurmond: 22-hour filibuster against 1957 Civil Rights Act.     Martin Luther King: Compensatory treatment for past wrongs is justified.     Martin Luther King: Rustin being gay not a problem for King but for the movement.

Crime     Richard Nixon: 1968: Started "law-&-order" plank to gain Southern Whites.

Education     John F. Kennedy: Aid to Education Bill defeated when private schools excluded.     John F. Kennedy: 1963 Higher Education Act: more grants; more colleges.

Energy & Oil     Martin Luther King: Move toward renewable and environmentally safe energy.

Environment     John F. Kennedy: Invest in facilities for the important resources of the seas.

Foreign Policy     Dwight Eisenhower: OpEd: Organized Bay of Pigs invasion that JFK carried out.     Richard Nixon: Coined term "Domino Theory": defend against Asian Communism.     Richard Nixon: 1960: Krushchev's grandchildren will live in freedom.     Richard Nixon: OpEd: Organized Bay of Pigs invasion that JFK carried out.     Ayn Rand: Withdraw from UN; sever relations with USSR.     John F. Kennedy: 1961: Created the Peace Corps.

Free Trade     Martin Luther King: Every morning you've depended on more than half the world.

Government Reform     Richard Nixon: 1960s Enemies List: 20 journalists & public officials.     Martin Luther King: One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

Gun Control     Martin Luther King: I was much more afraid when I had a gun in my house.

Health Care     Ayn Rand: Imposing Medicare regiments and destroys medical science.     Martin Luther King: Injustice in health is most shocking, inhuman inequality.

Homeland Security     Dwight Eisenhower: 1961: Be wary of the military-industrial complex.     Richard Nixon: 1969: Doing away with draft undercut antiwar movement.     Gerald Ford: Warren Commission: no conspiracy on JFK killing.     Martin Luther King: Military adventures draw money like demonic suction tube.

Immigration     Martin Luther King: Anyone living in US can't be an outsider within its bounds.

Principles & Values     Richard Nixon: Ran for CA governor in 1962 instead of President in 1964.     Richard Nixon: 1960: Candidacy supported by Eisenhower, but not on hustings.     Richard Nixon: 1965: Encouraged young graduates to run for Congress.     John F. Kennedy: 1960: US is standing still & suffering lowered prestige.     Lyndon Johnson: 1960 ideological balance: Voted opposite JFK 264 times.     Saul Alinsky: Liberals desire progress; conservatives prefer status quo.     Newt Gingrich: 1960: first political activism: student volunteer for Nixon.     Hillary Clinton: 1960s: Rejected as applicant to NASA; women not allowed.     Hillary Clinton: 1969: Criticized Senator's speech as lacking relevance.     Martin Luther King: Church is conscience of the state, not master or servant.     Martin Luther King: I have a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

Social Security     John F. Kennedy: 1961: liberalize social security to help end recession.

Tax Reform     John F. Kennedy: 1961: We need tax cut to keep drive from running out of gas.

Technology     Richard Nixon: 1969: Moonwalk made heavens become part of man's world.     Richard Nixon: 1969: Moon landing culminated program begun in 1957, not JFK.     Richard Nixon: 1968: Built campaign strategy around controlling television.

War & Peace     Dwight Eisenhower: 1966: Any action to win in Vietnam, even nukes.     Dwight Eisenhower: LBJ should formulate a "more sensible" policy on Vietnam.     Richard Nixon: 1968: Secret plan to end war morphed to secret bombings.     Richard Nixon: Iraq has threatened Kuwait since 1960s.     Richard Nixon: Supported 1960 CIA-backed invasion of Cuba.     Richard Nixon: 1965: If we give up Vietnam, Pacific Ocean becomes a Red Sea.     Ayn Rand: Moral right, but not duty, to invade totalitarian states.     John F. Kennedy: Trading missiles in Cuba for Jupiters in Turkey is a threat.     Martin Luther King: Called for unilateral ceasefire in Vietnam War.

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