John+Kennedy

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=John Fitzgerald Kennedy=

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=__Biographical Information:__=

Birthdate:

 * May 29, 1917**

Location:
Marriage(s):**
 * Brookline, MA

Religion:

 * Roman Catholic**

Party Affiliation(s):

 * Democrat**

Education:

 * Harvard College (graduated in 1940)**

Career:

 * Author, U.S. Navy Officer, Journalist, Public Official**

Nickname(s):

 * "JFK", "Jack"**

Children:

 * Caroline Bouvier; John Fitzgerald, Jr. ; Patrick Bouvier**

Cause of Death:
Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, while riding through Dallas, Texas.

Location:
Dallas, Texas

__Biographical Sketch:__
Rose and Joesph Kennedy bore a son on May, 1917, in Brookline, Mass, named John. He grew up in the Boston suburb Brookline. John was the second son of nine children, which was made up of five girls and four boys. John suffered of many diseases during his childhood, including a couple of big ones for the time, such as, whooping cough, measles, and the chicken pox. The most serious disease that John got during his childhood was scarlet fever. His family had to be careful with him because John became sick very very easily.

John went to Harvard University and graduated in 1940, then went into the Navy. In 1953 he married Jacqueline Lee Bouvier, and in 1955 he wrote the the book __//Profiles in Courage//__ which won the Pulitzer Prize in history. Became President in 1961 and was murdered in 1963 in Dallas, Texas.

=__Political Experience__=
 * (1946-1952) U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts.
 * (1952-1961) U.S. Senate
 * (1961-1963) President of U.S.

=__Presidential Administration__=

Secretary of State:

 * Dean Rusk**

Secretary of War (Defense):

 * Robert S. McNamara**

Postmaster General:

 * J. Edward Day, John A. Gronouski**

Secretary of the Treasury:

 * C. Douglas Dillion**

Secretary of the Interior:

 * Stewart Udall**

Attorney General:

 * Robert F. Kennedy**

Secretary of the Navy:
=__Domestic Affairs__=

The biggest Domestic affair of Kennedy's time in office was the Civil Rights movement. Kennedy did not do a great job in ending the movement, in fact he hardly had a role in the movement. He did have the guard escort a colored man to enroll at the University of Mississippi in 1962. There was a huge riot because of a colored man was going to school there. After the "I Have a Dream" speech Kennedy submitted laws to fix the problems, which became law after Kennedy was brutally murdered in Dallas.

=__Foreign Affairs__=

Kennedy faced multiple international problems during his term. A large political failure, had occurred two months into Kennedy being in office. He ordered a group of refugees, that were against new Cuban leader Fidel Castro, to go in and take him out of power. In the early hours of April 17, 1961 the force of refugees landed in "The Bay of Pigs". The plan failed quickly, Castro's forces easily had taken them out. Next the government tried to cover up that the U.S. was not involved but that did not work. Kennedy took a big hit because of this. The Intel given to Kennedy from the CIA that this plan would work, was not solid and the Kennedy administration payed for it when the story went public.

The other two events that Kennedy faced were the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the spread of Communism in South Vietnam. The Cuban missile Crisis almost caused a nuclear world war, and nobody wanted that, mostly because World War Two had just ended roughly 15 years ago.

=__Famous Quotes__= "When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were."

"We must use time as a tool, not as a couch."

=__Interesting Facts__= At forty-three years old John F. Kennedy became the youngest person ever elected President, on the opposite side Kennedy was also the youngest President to die in office at forty-six years old.

John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon met in a series of televised debates. This marked the first time in United States History that presidential candidates combated campaign issues face to face. On these debates Kennedy appeared to be younger than forty - three, very confident, well prepared, and knowledgeable about all the topics in the debates. Although the election was still close, this event undoubtedly helped Kennedy win the election and become the 35th president of the United States of America.

=__Presidential Timeline__=


 * (April 1961) The U.S backed attack of Cuba fails at "The Bay of Pigs"
 * (October 1962) The Soviet Union removed its nuclear missiles from Cuba.
 * (June 1963) Kennedy calls civil rights movement a "moral crisis" for America.
 * (August 1963) The U.S. and the Soviet Union agree on a treaty to ban nuclear weapon testing.

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=__Links__=
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