John F. Kennedy

The first Roman Catholic president, John F. Kennedy, fought through many hardships. Becoming the president at the age of 43, he went through many difficult trials to get that role due to his religion and health. Although he died early, he still managed to go beyond his presidential duties and accomplished a lot during his short term.

John F. Kennedy was the first president to dance with a black woman at his inaugural ball (abc.com). In the 1960s segregation in the south was a progressing problem, schools and workplaces were still segregated even though there were laws. Civil rights activists wanted stand, but they simply didn’t have enough power. JFK took a stand by setting the groundwork for a bill and integrating schools in the south.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States of America, served as president from January 20th, 1961 to November 22nd, 1963, the day of his death and the day after the assassination attempt by Lee Harvey Oswald. Mr. Kennedy was arguably most famous for his role in the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, where he, as president, made the decision to find more peaceful resolutions to the threats associated with a Castro-led Cuba possessing nuclear weapons rather than using the violent courses of actions suggested by the other members of the Executive Committee of the National Security Council, or EXCOMM. During the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, John F. Kennedy averted a nuclear war between the two superpowers, avoided another invasion

Robert Dallek's book, John F. Kennedy, covers the valiant life of JFK from 1917 to 1963. Personally, I found the book to be an interesting read. The book openly illustrates the highs and lows, as well as the short tenured life of the 35th president of the United States. Overall, I felt that this book assembled some of the most relevant information about the life and political career of JFK, presented in a unified and thoughtfully written description. This analysis will describe some of my take-a-ways from the book.

A young man named Jack was born into an Irish Catholic family, born second of nine siblings.When Jack was a child, he did not know that his life would change for the better. Jack was a very successful man when he was twenty-nine John F.Kennedy "JFK" entered the 80th Congress in January of 1947. In January of 1960, JFK was elected for President. JFK was elected for president, he started establishing the Peace Corps and the Civil Rights Movement.JFK has positively benefited modern society by working with the Civil Rights Movement and by establishing the Peace Corps.

In our nation, the power of Democracy is our greatest power. The job as a citizen is to elect representatives to keep in contact with our personal liberties and create equal power in governing for all. During the 1960 election, John F Kennedy and Richard Nixon created what is known as the First modern campaign. In the book, “The First Modern Campaign”, by Gary A. Donaldson, he discusses some of the struggles Kennedy had to go through in order to come out on top. The fact that Kennedy was not a liberal made it very hard at first to win over any votes. In the Textbook, “American Government, Roots and Reform”, it stated that a liberal is, one who favors greater government intervention, particularly in economic affairs and in the provision of social services. In previous history, Kennedy, has completely gone against the liberals and has supported communist activities. Kennedy knew, however, that he would not win the election without the support of the liberals. (39) Kennedy tried many ways to appeal to the people of the united states, however, his competitors seemed to always have an upper hand. Until Humphrey came along during the primaries and Kennedy could portray himself as the underdog. Humphrey never had a lot of votes, but as time went by the money for his campaign lessened and he later described it as, “money for a campaign is as basic as gasoline for a motor, if you run out, the vehicle stops.” (49)

Bay of Pigs started in 1961 after operation mongoose. Operation mongoose was a mission to assiante fedal Castro and to contain communism the Americans feared it was going to make United States fall. Which fedal knew what was coming to him and was prepared. Bay of pigs was the sequel to the previous mission but the outcome was the same as the first one fedal knew what was coming to him so he got his troop ready to go to war while john f Kennedy was in office he had 20 Guatemala training camps that had Cuban exiles that was against fedal castro so in that favor the Americans taught teach them how to fight like solider so they can take out Castro the only bad thing about it was that Castro knew everything they knew he had people in the us that

One of the most tragic murders of American history happened in 1963, when John F. Kennedy, then president of the United-States of America, was brutally shot when while in Dallas for a visit. Indeed, during the cold war, there were two principal enemies: the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R) and the United States of America (U.S.A). The U.S.A were capitalists while the U.S.S.R were communists. Both believed that their ideology was the best and they wanted to be the most powerful country in the world. However, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was not the only enemy from the United States of America, Cuba was also a big threat for them. Thus, the United States decided to spy on Cuba to gather information and eventually, attack

John Fitzgerald Kennedy explored the world of politics when he entered politics and later became president. He explored a lot of stress and pain, knowing that one wrong move could send this country downhill in an instant. I mean, if you were in his shoes. I am pretty sure that you would probably have grey hair in two weeks. He has to explore difficult dispositions like the Cuban Missal crisis that could have started World War three if we didn 't have a smart president like John Fitzgerald Kennedy. He also had to deal with the racist people who didn 't respect black people just because their skin was a different color than the white people. John Fitzgerald Kennedy did not like that black people were being treated differently one bit. John Fitzgerald Kennedy encountered a lot of things during his life. Like he encountered many sicknesses when he was a kid and all the way to even when he died. He had to have many surgeries throughout his life. He had a lot of things wrong with him. He would always admire his older brother Joe, who was killed while doing a very dangerous job. He had to fly an airplane that had thousands of explosives in it, and sadly the whole plane blew up killing Joe and two other people on that dangerous mission. John Fitzgerald Kennedy had to encounter his brother 's death.

On November 22, 1963 shortly after noon the 35th president of the United States of America John Fitzgerald Kennedy (JFK) was assassinated in Dallas Texas. The nation and the whole world was shocked in that day. In fact, president JFK was preparing for his next combine in Texas, he took a road trip by a motorcade with his wife Jacqueline Kennedy, Governor John Connally, and his wife Nellie. The road trip went through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas towards the trade mart, where the president was scheduled to give a speech there. The road that the president JFK was traveling on by his motorcade was fully crowded by citizen, reporter, and photographer, which all came out to see the president. Around 12:30, the president motorcade was on Main Street and less than ten minutes away from the trade mart, a gunshot was fired from Texas school book Depository which was on Main Street. President JFK was shot on his neck and his head, and the Governor John also was shot on his chest. The president was taken to nearby hospital Parkland Memorial hospital. Half an hour later, it was announce that the president JFK was dead, and Governor John after a serious surgery. According to (John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum).

Out of the huge selection of presidents to choose from that served our country, John F Kennedy deserves the rights to be considered one of the greatest presidents of all time. In the short time amount of time that he served before he was assassinated, he still made an impact and was also the youngest that was ever elected at the age of 23. He had many defining moments during his time and the way he led the country is what tagged him to be one of the greatest presidents that the United States has ever had. He showed leadership, passion, and responsibility toward his country. He may not have been the perfect president, but Kennedy did a lot to make a positive impact to our people and communities.

I think the best president the united sates had was John F Kennedy. I believe this because lots of great things happened during his presidency. Such as "The Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, the establishment of the Peace Corps, developments in the Space Race..." Those are just a few reasons on why i think he is the best president the united states have had. He also served in the military as a commander during world war 2.

When John F Kennedy served as the 35th president of the United States his overall goal was to issue civil rights for everyone. Fortunately, he was very successful in doing so when he achieved this goal before being assassinated. Many people would argue his presidency was a failure due to the Cuban missile crisis that almost started a nuclear war, however, due to Kennedy 's leadership we were able to come to a peaceful agreement. John F Kennedy was successful in office because he prevented nuclear armageddon, established the Peace Corps to help struggling countries, and achieved his goal of civil rights in America.

The Bay of Pigs took place in April of 1961, and was a failed attempt to overthrow communist dictator Fidel Castro. The American troops split into five groups by boat on April 13, 1961 and had landed by the 16th. At the beginning the Cubans were overwhelmed, but then Castro took over the mission. The US only sent half of the air support that was planned and necessary for the US to claim victory. Because of the lack of air support the American soldiers were captured in three days and sent to Cuban prisons. This was one of the worst losses for the United States military but great for Castro. He felt as though he was on top of the world and much better than the US which led to Cuba to make the call to Khrushchev to import the nuclear weapons. The call that Castro made led the US and Cuba to a 13 day political and military standoff, and the US was not afraid to use massive retaliation. Cuba and the US came to an agreement that Cuba would remove their weapons if the US removed their nuclear weapons from Turkey. Cuba had allied with the Soviet Union while the Cold War was at its climax, the U.S. flew over Cuba and saw that nuclear missiles were being installed which continued the battle. After a long and treacherous 13 days both Cuba and The

Castro intended on helping Cuba’s high poverty, but Castro did not turn Cuba into a democracy like he said he would (“Cuban missile Crisis”2). In 1960 the soviet premier attempted to convince Castro to become communist, soon after this castro became communist, probably influenced by the soviet premier (“Cuban missile Crisis”3). A new american president, that could probably change the war, was coming into office around this time, President Kennedy. The new president would take on the problem of this new cuban leader (International Encyclopedia of the… 1). Before him, Eisenhower trained about 1,500 Cuban Exiles in secret to try to take over Cuba, Kennedy allowed this to go on. On april 17, the exils attempted to invade Cuba(“Cuban missile Crisis”3). Since Castro had found out about the invasion, he was ready and defeated the the incoming force easily(“Cuban missile Crisis”3-4). The failed invasion seemed to help the Cuban opinion of Castro. He was now an obvious threat and so the U.S. decided to start operation Mongoose. Operation Mongoose was a secret operation to get rid of Castro, it was an operation where the U.S. would try to sabotage Cuba, but Operation Mongoose never ended up happening. The U.S.S.R. did not want to lose Cuba so they decided to secretly send weapons into Cuba, including nuclear weapons (“Cuban missile Crisis”4). These arm shipments would lead to one of the