John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was the 35th president of the United States. He was the youngest man and the first Roman Catholic ever elected to the presidency. Rich, handsome, elegant, and articulate, he aroused great admiration at home and abroad. His term of office as president was too short, however, to say what his place in history might have been Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, on May 29, 1917. His father, Joseph P. Kennedy was a businessman who became a multimillionaire, head of the Securities and Exchange Commission, and ambassador to Great Britain. Kennedy graduated from Choate School in Wallingford, Connecticut. He then briefly attended Princeton University, and then entered Harvard University in 1936. At Harvard he wrote an honors thesis on British foreign policies in the 1930s. It was published in 1940, the year he graduated, under the title Why England Slept. In 1941, shortly before the United States entered World War II, Kennedy joined the U.S. Navy. He attended a school to learn about the Patrol Torpedo boat. Kennedy was sent to the islands of the South Pacific Ocean where he was in charge of a Torpedo boat, everybody called him Skipper John Kennedy, the boat was called PT 109.
The boat had been in battle and and it was dirty. The engines were in need of repair. J.F.K went to work, and soon the PT 109 was ready for war. J.F.K said, “the torpedos would sink any ship on the sea”.(wagnerpg.4) Near an old pier the PT boats waited every day. When night came, they were ready for war. They drifted out into the ocean and listened for the sound of engines of enemy ships, for three or more nights they did that but they didn’t find anything. One night in early autumm four enemy ships had been spotted near an island. The PT boats waited for dark so they wouldn’t be seen. Slowly the PT 109 rode the black waves and every man of the crew listened. The crew could here the sound of an engine off in the distance as they came towards it. Then in an instant the PT 109 was hit by an enemy’s torpedo. With a loud crash it split the PT 109 in half. J.F.K was thrown in the water with the rest of the crew. J.F.K called out for his crew some of them answered. J.F.K. climbed up on the half of the boat that was floating and helped people up into the the boat. In the distance they could see an island, but they knew that there were enemy ships on that island.
The Essay on My Desert Island Day One
Today is the very first time I’ve ever made a diary; it’s also the first time I’ve ever been stranded on a desert island. I know this sounds really cheesy but this is how my life was turned upside down. A week ago on Monday was my usual day, wake up, have a shower, nip to the shops, then go to school, then after school hang out with my friends for a bit then go home. It was almost 5 o’clock when I ...
To the south lay the the Plum Pudding Island. They swam to the island looking for help. They finally found some people that took them to meet with eleven men of the PT 109. J.F.K. was sent to a hospital for back injuries where he stayed for 3 weeks. During Kennedy’s stay in the hospital he worked on a book of biographical studies of American political heroes. The book was published in 1956 under the title Profiles in Courage, it won a Pulitzer Prize for biography in 1957. This faith in activism was to become a hallmark of his presidency. On September 12, 1953, Kennedy married Jacqueline Bouvier. The couple had three children: Caroline Bouvier, John Fitzgerald Junior, and a second son who died at birth in August 1963. In 1956, Kennedy tryed unsuccessfully for the Democratic vice-presidential nomination. After that, he set his sights on the presidency, especially after his re-election to the Senate in 1958. He continued during these years to support a firmly anti-Communist foreign policy. By 1960, Kennedy was one of many Democratic nominy’s for president. He put together, however, a well-financed, highly organized campaign and won on the first ballot. As a Northerner and a Roman Catholic, he recognized his lack of strength in the South and chose Sen.
Lyndon Baines Johnson of Texas as his running mate. Kennedy also performed well in a series of television debates with his Republican opponent, Vice-President Richard M. Nixon. Kennedy promised tougher defense policies and better health, housing, and civil rights programs. His New Frontier, he pledged, would bring the nation out of its economic slump. Kennedy won the election for presidency, but by a very narrow margin. By far the tensest overseas confrontation of the Kennedy years occurred with the Cuban Missile Crisis. In October 1962, U.S. intelligence discovered that the Russians were constructing missile sites in Cuba. Resolving to show his mettle, he ordered a naval and air quarantine on shipments of weapons to Cuba. At first armed conflict seemed likely. But the Soviets pulled back and promised not to set up the missiles; the United States then said they would not attack Cuba. The Soviets and Americans signed a treaty barring testing of nuclear weapons. Kennedy however remained as ready as ever to stop Communist advances. As you can see Kennedy had quite a few accomplishments in his short life. Kennedy went to Princeton and Harvard, wrote two award winning books, fought bravely in World War two, became president of the U.S., developed the Peace Corps and stopped the Cuban Missile Crisis.
The Essay on Jfk Cuban Missile Crisis
The speech made people aware that action was being taken to prevent any unexpected attacks and that every aspect of the crisis was being looked into. The speech itself upset many Americans and put them into a state of fear, but it also reassured them that Kennedy was aware and ready to take control to protect his country. Kennedy’s impact on the United States was not as remembered for what he did, ...
Kennedy was not perfect, though. Everyone from Frank Sinatra down has said that Judith Campbell Exner was a beautifal women. She was well known by the FBI to be the mistress of Kennedy. It was Sinatra who first introduced Exner to Kennedyin 1960. Although JFK is now thought of as having many mistresses,Exner was his main one. No biography of JFK since 1977 has not mentioned Exner. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had Exner followed, not for any law enforcement purpose, but rather to be able to blackmail JFK, just as Hoover had blackmailed every previous President, going back to Warren G. Harding, the president who had first appointed Hoover. Judith Campbell Exner was a friend of Mafia Don Sam Giancana. Exner has been treated unfairly by history. She never sought to capitalize off the fact that she was JFK’s mistress. She kept this hidden for years. Jackie knew about her, though. Once, when Jackie found a woman’s pink panties in her pillow case, she turned to JFK in bed and said, “Would you find out who these belong to, because they are not my size?”.(Green pg.2) Kennedy was shot and killed as his motorcade rolled through Dallas, Texas November 22, 1963. He was only 47 years old. Many people still remember excatly what they were doing the moment they heard of his death. Many wonder the impact he may have had on this country of ours if he had continued to serve as President.
The Term Paper on United States Kennedy President John
In November 1960, at the age of 43, John F. Kennedy became the youngest man ever elected president of the United States. Theodore Roosevelt had become president at 42 when President William McKinley was assassinated, but he was not elected at that age. On Nov. 22, 1963, Kennedy was shot to death in Dallas, Tex. , the fourth United States president to die by an assassin's bullet. Kennedy was the ...
