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I can't really say because I'm not familiar enough with his platforms regarding things like 2nd amendment issues, foreign policy, etc. I was just too young to really remember much about his presidency. That was before I was really interested in politics at all.
Must be nice to be a young one. I first got interested in politics watching the 1956 Democratic and Republican Conventions on TV. Back then a convention was big news as nothing was really decided prior to the convention. There were only around 10 primaries then with the rest of the states picking who they wanted to be their parties nominee via meetings with state party leaders. Of course in 1956, everyone knew IKE would be running again, but no one knew Stevenson would be chosen to be the democratic nominee.
As a side JFK was running for VP that year and finally gave his try up at the convention when it became clear he could win the VP slot. Losing that and bowing out gracefully was probably the best thing that happen to him as he would win the 1960 nomination fairly easy over LBJ.