A cousin of his, Bourke Hickenlooper, was a distinguished longtime Conservative Republican Governor (1943-45) and Senator (1945-69) from Iowa. John, you’re not fit to hold your cousin’s jock.
Opposing the Hickenlooper amendment was another action that makes laughable the allegation John F. Kennedy was a conservative.
The Hickenlooper amendment would have banned foreign aid to any country that stole US property (ie Cuba seizing sugar plantations). A pretty “duh” move, opposed by liberal Kennedy cause it would “mess up diplomacy”.