In the JFK administration I was a White House Fellow. In those days it was a much larger program than the small insider program it later became - May 21, 2016 CET
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts: Former US Treasury Official, Co-Founder of Reaganomics, Economist & Acclaimed Author -
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts is an American economist, a columnist and recent
author of “How America Was Lost: From 9/11 to the Police/Welfare
State”. He served as an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the
Reagan Administration earning fame as a co-founder of Reaganomics. He is
a former editor and columnist for the Wall Street Journal, Business
Week, and Scripps Howard News Service. Dr. Roberts has testified before
congressional committees on 30 occasions on issues of economic policy.
He has also written extensively that during the 21st century the Bush
and Obama administrations have destroyed the US Constitution's
protections of Americans' civil liberties and has been a critic of both
Democratic and Republican administrations.
President Kennedy’s intention was to involve many young Americans in government in order to keep idealism alive as a counter to the material interests of lobby groups.
I don’t know if the program still exists. If it does, the idealism that was its purpose is long gone.
President John F. Kennedy was a classy president. In my lifetime there has not been another like him. Indeed, today he would be impossible.
