It’s been 65 years since John F. Kennedy first spoke of America’s “New Frontier.” This was his rallying cry for the nation, urging citizens to be bold and courageous in their vision for solutions for not just the US but also the world’s most pressing problems. “It would be easier to shrink from that New Frontier, to look to the safe mediocrity of the past, to be lulled by good intentions and high rhetoric,” Kennedy declared in July of 1960.

The New Frontier, what would become the centerpiece of John F. Kennedy’s all-too-brief presidential administration, was a call to a higher purpose: an idealistic demand that the nation and its citizens use their creativity, courage and imagination to foster widespread domestic and global progress and uplift. Kennedy’s administrative vision promised a g

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