10 Facts About The Democratic Party

1. The Democratic Party labeled himself and governed as a "New Democrat".

2. The Democratic Party pushed for civil rights initiatives and proposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, but with his assassination in November 1963 was not able to see its passage.

3. The Democratic Party had a small yet decisive advantage over the Whigs until the 1850s, when the Whigs fell apart over the issue of slavery.

4. The Democratic Party deployed the US military to Haiti to reinstate deposed president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, took a strong hand in Palestinian-Israeli peace negotiations, brokered a historic cease-fire in Northern Ireland and negotiated the Dayton accords.

5. The Democratic Party enacted strong legislation on environmental protection through the expansion of the National Park Service in Alaska, creating 103 million acres of park land.

6. The Democratic Party challenged America in the Space Race to land an American man on the moon by 1969.

7. The Democratic Party would dominate the party for two decades.

8. The Democratic Party would be the last Democratic incumbent for nearly a century to lose his party's nomination for another term.

9. The Democratic Party had no sympathy for American Indians, initiating the removal of the Cherokees along the Trail of Tears.

10. The Democratic Party exercised the veto more than all previous presidents combined.