Elected in 1960 as the 35-year-old president of the United States, 43-year-old John F. Kennedy was probably the youngest man, as well as the first Roman Catholic, to take this position. He was born into one of America’s richest families and was engaged in elite training and a good reputation as a military hero and made a profitable run for the Congress in 1946 and for the Senate in 1952. As President Kennedy was confronted with the escalating cold war of tension in Cuba, in Vietnam and elsewhere. In addition, he provided an updated disc for the public service and ultimately provided federal support for the growing civil rights campaign. His murder on November 22 in Texas, in Dallas, in 1963, sent shock waves around the world and switched all too human Kennedy to a heroic figure larger than life. To this particular day, historians remain in the ranking among the most beloved American members.
Born twenty-nine years, Massachusetts, in Brooklyn, 1917, John F. Kennedy (known as Jack) was the second of 9 children. His parents, Joseph and Rose Kennedy, were members of the 2 most famous Irish political families of Boston. Despite persistent health problems in his childhood and adolescence (after he was identified as a rare endocrine disorder known as Addison's disease), Jack led privileged youth by visiting private classes such as Choat and Canterbury, and investing summer in Port Hyannis on Cape Cod. Joe Kennedy, a very efficient businessman, as well as a former supporter of Franklin D. Roosevelt, was appointed chairman of the security and exchange commission in 1934, and in 1937 he was appointed US ambassador to the UK. As a student at Harvard, Jack traveled to Europe as secretary to his father. His senior thesis about the unpreparedness of the British for war was later published as a popular book, Why England Was Sleeping (1940).
In 1941, the United States Navy joined Jack, and 2 years later he was taken to the South Pacific, where he was given command of the boat Patrol Torpedo (PT). In August 1943, the Japanese destroyer was stuck on a ship, PT 109, in the Solomon Islands. Kennedy again helped several of his crews go to a safe place and received a navy, as well as a Marine Corps medal for heroism. His elder brother, Joe Jr., was not so fortified: he was killed in August 1944, when his naval plane took off secretly objectively against the German rocket launch. The grieving Joe Sr. told Jack that he was obliged to fulfill his fate in due time, designed for Joe Jr.: to turn into the very first Catholic President of the United States.
JFK HOME IN POLITICS
Refusing to become a journalist, Jack left the navy by the end of 1944. Less than a year later, he returned to Boston, planning to run for Congress in 1946. As a rational conservative Democrat and supported by his father & # 39; he won his party nomination, and held mainly the working class of the Eleventh Circuit by almost 3 to 1 against his republican opponent in general elections. He entered the 80th Congress in January 1947, an era of twenty-nine, and quickly attracted interest (as well as some criticism from the more mature members of the Washington establishment) for the youth of his relaxed and relaxed style.
Kennedy won re-election at the House of Representatives in 1948, and also in 1950, and also in 1952, successfully by the Senate, defeating his beloved Republican, the former Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. On September 12, 1953, Kennedy married a magnificent secular community as a journalist for Jacqueline (Jackie) Lee Bouvier. Two years after that, he was forced to undergo severe back surgery. Having recovered from the operation, Jack published another best-selling book, “Profiles of Courage,” which won the Pulitzer Prize for his biography in 1957. (Initially, it was initially shown that the Kennedy leadership was a longtime assistant, Theodore Sorenson).
KENNEDY Road to the President
After almost nominating a candidate for the post of vice-president (in accordance with Adlai Stevenson) in 1956, Kennedy announced the candidacy of his president on January 2, 1960. He defeated a serious problem with the much more liberal Hubert Humphrey and chose the Senate majority leader, Lyndon Johnson from Texas, as his assistant. In the general election, Kennedy faced a tough fight against his Republican opponent Richard Nixon, vice president with two terms of office under the famous Dwight D. Eisenhower. By offering a young, energetic path to Nixon, as well as the status quo, Kennedy benefited from his performance (as well as telegenic appearance) in the first proven debts, viewed by a large number of viewers. In the November election, Kennedy won with a slight advantage of less than 120,000 of seventy million votes, becoming the youngest man, as well as the first Roman Catholic, to be elected president of the United States.
With a beautiful young wife for him and their 2 children who are small (Caroline, born in 1957, and Jr., born only a few weeks after the election), Kennedy provided the Mad unarmed aura of glamor and youth. In his inaugural address on January 20, 1961, a completely new president called on his fellow Americans to unite in order to improve and eradicate poverty, but also in the struggle for a persistent cold war against communism in the world. Kennedy’s popular, closed words showed that the demand for sacrifice and cooperation on the component of the American people: “Do not ask what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.”
TASKS OF POLITICAL POLICY
The early foreign affairs crisis took place in April 1961, when Kennedy approved a program to send 1,400 CIA trained Cuban exiles to the landing ground in the Bay of Pigs in Cuba. To undertake an uprising that would overthrow the Communist leader Fidel Castro, the mission ended in failure, and almost all the exiles were killed or even killed. In June, Kennedy welcomed the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna to talk about the city of Berlin, which was split after the Second World War between the teams of allies and the USSR. After 2 weeks, East German troops began to build a wall to destroy the city. Kennedy sent an army convoy to reassure West Berliners of US assistance, and in June 1963 he would send one of his most prominent speeches in West Berlin.
Kennedy collided with Khrushchev again in October 1962 during the crisis of the Cuban mission. Upon learning that the Soviet Union was building a number of nuclear and long-range missile objects in Cuba that could pose a threat to the continental United States, Kennedy announced a naval blockade of Cuba. The tense confrontation lasted about two weeks before Khrushchev agreed to dismantle the Soviet rocket sites in Cuba in exchange for America’s promise not to invade American missiles from other objects and Turkey close to the Soviet borders. In July 1963, Kennedy won his best victory abroad, when Khrushchev agreed to subscribe to him and British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan when signing a treaty banning nuclear testing. In Southeast Asia, however, Kennedy's desire to change the spread of communism led him to escalate US involvement in the Vietnam conflict, even in private, he expressed concern about the circumstances.
KENNEDY LEADERSHIP IN THE HOUSE
During the first year of his business, Kennedy led the launch of the Peace Corps, which would transfer the volunteers of the younger generation to the underdeveloped countries around the world. Or else, he was unable to achieve much of his proposed legislation during his lifetime, including 2 of his most important priorities: the reduction of income tax and the draft law on civil rights. Kennedy was in no hurry to devote himself to the cause of civil rights, but was extremely involved in the action, having provided federal troops to help support the desegregation of Mississippi citizens after the missiles there were 2 dead and many others were injured. The following summer, Kennedy announced his intention to propose a comprehensive civil rights bill and supported a significant march in Washington, which was held in August.
Kennedy was an extremely popular president, both at home and abroad, and his family made extensive use of the comparison with King Arthur in Camelot. His brother, Bobby, served as attorney general, although perhaps Kennedy's youngest son, Edward (Ted), was elected to Jack's former senate seat in 1962. Jackie Kennedy became a worldwide icon of style, sophistication and beauty, although the stories about her husband’s many years of falsehood (along with his personal connection with members of organized crime) would later come out to complicate the idyllic picture of Kennedy.
JFK ASSOCIATION
Twenty-two years, 1963, the president, as well as his wife, landed in Dallas. From the airfield, the party then went to the motorcade at the Dallas Trade Mart, in the place of Jack. Shortly after 12:30 pm, as the convoy passed through the center of Dallas, shots rang out; Kennedy was stuck twice, both on the neck and on the head, and was declared dead shortly after arriving at the medical center.
The twenty-four-year-old Lee Harvey Oswald, known for his communist sympathies, was arrested for the murder, but was injured and physically injured 2 days later by the regional owner of the nightclub Jack Ruby, when he was sent to prison. Almost immediately, alternative theories of the Kennedy assassination appeared, including conspiracies headed by the KGB, the mafia, and the US military industrial complex. A presidential commission led by Chief Justice Earl Warren concluded that Oswald acted on his own, although discussions and speculation about the murder persisted.
