Introduction
JFK had been elected by one of the smallest popular vote margins in U.S. history. Kennedy had campaigned on the slogan, "Getting America moving again." Recovery in 1958 was very slow and unemployment rates were still very high, 6.8% after he took office. The Council of Economic Advisers strongly urged him to use the deficit spending money ($7 billion). JFK worried that using the deficit spending money would be unsustainable.