... book in July of 1940. It was a modest best-seller, and gave JFK his first taste of celebrity. With Harvard behind him, JFK briefly attended Stanford Business School, and, along with most Americans of his age, registered for the draft, in October 1940. His number was called, but he used ... his status as a student to defer entry into the military until summer 1941. Meanwhile, he left Stanford and took a rather aimless trip through South America in the spring of 1941. At this time, he was dating a number of women, a pattern that ... but in the end he settled on running for the House's Elev...

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