Kennedy family claims to be the sole interpreters of JFK legacy:
Monday, March 12, 2001, 9:09 p.m. EST
Kennedy Family Demands GOP Yank Tax Cut Ad
Two members of the Kennedy family have demanded that Republicans
halt an advertising campaign that invokes the words of President
John F. Kennedy to sell President Bush's tax cut plan, the
Associated Press reported Monday night.
The ads draw heavily on audio from a 1962 speech by the late
president where he proposes his own sweeping tax cut plan.
Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy and Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg
sent a written complaint to the Issues Management Center, which
put the ad campaign together and is currently running it in
states with Democratic senators that were carried by Bush in
last year's election.
The Kennedys claimed the ads are "intellectually dishonest and
politically irresponsible."
"It's a dramatic misreading of history to compare President
Kennedy's and President Bush's tax cut proposals."
"President Kennedy's tax cut was responsible," while Bush's is
more like President Reagan's, which favored the wealthy, they
said.
In fact the controversial audio, some of which was aired
nationally Monday by conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh,
makes the late Democratic Party icon sound very much like a
Reagan era supply-sider.
In one excerpt, President Kennedy actually argues that cutting
taxes for the wealthy will spur the economy and boost tax
revenues - the exact argument made by Reagan in 1981.
"It appears that Sen. Kennedy doesn't have a problem with the
Issues Management Center, but with President Kennedy's tax cut,"
GOP consultant Greg Mueller told the AP in response to the
Kennedy's letter.
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