describe his concept of the challenges facing the United States in the 1960s. The term was most prominently used by Kennedy in the speech with which he accepted the nomination as presidential candidate of the Democratic Party for the 1960 election at the party’s national convention in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on July 15, 1960. Kennedy said that the American people must be prepared to sacrifice in order to cross “a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils.” The term New Frontier was never used to delineate specific proposals for legislation.
