Jack Kennedy's older brother, Joe, who had dreamed of becoming president one day, was killed in action. When he returned from the war, Jack inherited his father's aspirations for his brother Joe.
Young Jack Kennedy served first in the House of Representatives and then in the Senate, earning a reputation as a rather conservative Democrat. In 1952 he met the beautiful and graceful Jacqueline Bouvier at a dinner party, and, as he later put it, "leaned across the asparagus and asked her for a date." The two were married a year later. To continue his climb up the political ladder, JFK had to disguise his many health problems. As a child he had scarlet fever, bronchitis, whooping cough, diptheria, and allergies. Later he had a duodenal ulcer and loss of hearing in one ear. He suffered from a bad back, and was unable to lift anything, even his little children. He used cortisone to reduce inflammation and he also suffered from Addison's disease. Kennedy may not have been healthy, but he realized that a youthful, vigorous image contributed to his appeal. While recovering from back surgery, he wrote Profiles in Courage, about Americans who had taken unpopular but moral stands. The book won a Pulitzer Prize and made Kennedy a national name. Ambitious to win the presidency in 1960, young Senator Kennedy sought a head start on his rivals, making speeches and television appearances constantly and wooing key Democratic players long before his rivals did.
The most formidable obstacles facing John Kennedy in the election were his religion and his youth. No Catholic had ever been elected to the highest office in the nation, and many feared that somehow John Kennedy would be controlled by the Pope in Rome! He was also only forty-three years old. He was running against Richard Nixon, who had served as vice president for two terms under the popular President Eisenhower.
John and Jacqueline Kennedy had their first child, Caroline, in 1957.
John F. Kennedy This book report is being done on John F. Kennedy. One of the most famous and loved presidents we have had. This report will tell you about his life and how he became one of the great leaders of America. John F. Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts on May 29, 1917. His g...
Is John F. Kennedy A "Champion of Civil Rights?" Some believe Kennedy is a "champion of civil rights." I do not agree with that belief. Kennedy did affect the civil rights act in many positive ways, but he was no champion. I do not believe John F. Kennedy is a "champion of civil rights" b...
His mother, Rose, was the daughter of John F. ... John Kennedy himself had barely escaped death in battle. ... John Kennedy was dead, but the Kennedy mystique was still alive. ... Long remembered as "John-John," the three-year-old who stoically saluted his father's casket during live television coverage of the funeral procession, John Jr. became the founder and editor-in-chief of the political magazine George in the mid-1990s. In 1999, when John Jr., his wife, and his sister-in-law died in the crash of the private plane he was piloting, the event was the focus of an internatio...
John F. Kennedy, President is a book that sheds an interesting view of John Fitzgerald Kennedy's life as the 35th president of The United States of America. It reminds people how great of a man he was and what he did for our country. JFK was born on May 29, 1917 in Brookline, Massachusetts. Kenne...
"Let every nation know that we shall pay any price, bear any burden in order to assure the survival and the success of Liberty."" What message was John F. Kennedy trying to convey? John F. Kennedy expresses that our nation will sacrifice anything in order to secure Liberty within our nation. In Jo...
Some people consider him one of the best presidents of all time. Many others say there will never be another one like him. And yet there is still so much about John F. Kennedy that is ignored. The most shocking to me were his numerous affairs with women, including one with one of the biggest cultura...
The assassinations of United States presidents Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy are well known events in American history. Though their terms in office were abruptly ended almost one hundred years apart, there are several similarities that can be recognized between the two assassinations. Abra...
Was President John F. Kennedy assassinated by the madness of a lone gunman? ... It seemed that President Kennedy had a knack for creating enemies wherever he turned. ... In early 1961 President John F. ... I believe that President John F. ...
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