eve that anything could be accomplished to better the lives of the nation's and world's people (Kennedy 7-8).
The question is to what degree did Kennedy actually accomplish his domestic goals. Irving Bernstein, in Promises Kept: John F. Kennedy's New Frontier, argues that Kennedy was an effective leader. Bernstein argues that many of the domestic programs started by Kennedy were completed by Johnson, but he also says that Johnson's success in Congress was in part a result of the love of the people for Kennedy. Bernstein examines the important domestic issues of the early 1960s, and he concludes that in all of them Kennedy demonstrated effective leadership. These issues included civil rights, taxation,
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