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Congress and encounters his meeting with jfk with his interest in public service. >> its hard to describe, sometimes gets emotional. it eventually empowered me to do something for my country. the idea im here today in the united states congress, a lot of it started in that day. >> reporter: unlike the liberal jfk, hes a conservative, a house freshman elected with help from the tea party. still, he argues his ideals are a lot like kennedys, especially his belief in america as the greatest country...

The president who goes on to be assassinated an hour later. where does jfk knit fit on the political spectrum? >> "jfk conservative." john, what do you think it is about jfk that fascinates people 50 years on? >> what if? if he finished his team. where would the saifl rights debate go? a lot of pop say what would have happen to vietnam. would jack kennedy be more hesitant and much more reduck tablet to escalate into vietnam? i think the mythology and what ifs, what would have happen are part of ...

They say he needs to show a state of the union that shows hes up to the job of leader. we have ir stole, future of capitalism.com and author of jfk conservative which is out now. its interesting the president chose a more conservative outlet to speak today. who do you think hes trying to reach and is there anything he can say to regain the publics trust? >> there are a bunch of ceo and a lot benefitting from his commerce department and some may even like obama care because its help them control ...

Rates will never produce enough revenues to balance our budget. just as it will never produce enough jobs or enough profits. >> wait a minute. sounds like a conservative, but hes a liberal, right? the author of jud"jfk conservative." why do we have the other view, that he was a spendthrift liberal? >> its a myth. he wasnt able to say it wasnt true. >> to what end? what would be the benefit of doing that? >> well, the advance of policy debate in their direction. if youre a liberal, you want to cl...

Americas place in the world. >> thats a concept that a lot of people will find pretty startling. he increased military spending. he was very tight when it came to government spending on everything else. he was very religious. he was very anti-communist. >> reporter: stoll says in the 1960 campaign, kennedy positioned himself to the right of republican richard nixon on foreign policy. and once in office, immediately increased defense spending to beat the soviets in the arms race. he launched the ...