... of the UN, then meeting on Long Island, moved swiftly under prodding from Washington. Because, if the UN failed, all hope of collective security would presumably perish, and World War III would become virtually inevitable. Truman would have to move rapidly, too a resolute stand. He ordered the navy to neutralize Formosa by preventing attacks from Formosa on China or from Communist ... Communist China (Stokesbury 129). After he dismissal General Macarthur, he had lots of difficulties, but the thought so far it had been successful, so far he had prevented World War III, so far, by fightin...

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... same year, September 12, 1953, he married Jacqueline Lee Bouiver. He met her at a dinner party in Washington D.C, whom was also the daughter of a wealthy Wall Street broker, John V. Bouiver III. They had three children: Caroline, John F. Fitzgerald Jr., and Patrick Bouiver. In 1956 Kennedy almost gained the Democratic nomination for Vice President, but not until for years later, in 1960 ... , did he become a first ballot nominee for president in Los Angeles. Winning against Richard Nixon with 118,574 votes, he became the first Roman Catholic president and also the youngest ever to take o...

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