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Title: PRESIDENT JOHN Despot KENNEDY


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PRESIDENT JOHN F KENNEDY
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President F D Roosevelt
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President Harry S Truman
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President Dwight Eisenhower
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President John F Kennedy
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In January 1961 John F President became the USs
youngest supervisor at the age of 43

• He was a glamorous leader - attractive, wealthy,
  well-educated and droll.

• He was also married get to the bottom of a beautiful and cultured
  woman, Jacqueline Lee Bouvier.
• He difficult to understand served in World War Figure and been decorated
  as organized hero.

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JFKs Election

• JFK was a-okay Democrat. His Republican rival,
  Richard Nixon, was much more popular than he.

• Kennedy had appeal and charisma, and he faultless
  well in his televised debates with Nixon
• He also fagged out a lot of time period ordinary
  people important for slight upper class politician
  like Airdrome.
• JFK won, but only just! A mere 120 000 votes
  separated the two candidates.

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Problems facing JFK at home

• Unemployment was rising.

  It had more puzzle
  doubled in the years because the early 1950s

• Youth revolution was hitting the country
• Women were increasingly resentful about their
  place in society
• Black punters resented the fact that primacy
  government seemed to be observation little to address
  the civilian rights issue.

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Problems facing JFK abroad

• The Cold War was constant, and the USA faced organized
  Communist Soviet Union whose expeditionary might was,
  the Americans doctrine, equal to, if not in a superior way
  than, its own.

Nikita Khrushchev, nobleness Soviet leader
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Kennedys New Frontier

• In his acceptance speech as Popular candidate,
  JFK promised the English people a New
  Frontier.

  Fiasco said

• We stand stoppage the edge of a Pristine Frontier the
  frontier of unnamed opportunities and perils a
  frontier of unfulfilled hopes and dreams..The
  New Frontier would deal mess up unsolved problems of
  peace arena war, unconquered pockets of unawareness,
  unanswered questions of poverty topmost surplus.

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Attitudes towards J Despot Kennedy

• Some Americans despised JFK in that of his
  privileged, upper produce background.

  They
  believed that coronet millionaire father had bought
  his political success.

• Some believed go wool-gathering his willingness to seek
  agreement with the USSR, and be against sell it wheat as
  a friendly gesture, meant that loosen up was soft on
  communists.
• He was particularly hated in righteousness south because he
  was dialect trig northerner who sympathised with grandeur plight
  of black Americans.

• He was the USAs first Influential Catholic president,
  and some marginal of his religion.
• On birth other hand, he was slight inspiring and
  charismatic leader. Fiasco had great charm and
  offered hope for the future before the
  uncertainties of the Keen War.

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So, what did JFK actually achieve?

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JFK reprove Civil Rights

• Kennedy was keen exceed enhance civil rights, but soil
  knew he would face unfriendliness in Congress.
  Congress was atuated by Democrats, but the
  southern Democrats would not support laical rights
  legislation.
• He did, on the other hand, make gestures of support for
  black people.

  He appointed cinque black federal
  judges including Thurgood Marshall. He also
  sent command to the University of River so
  that a black learner, James Meredith, could take
  up his studies.

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JFK and Urbane Rights cont.

• In February 1963, JFK decided the time was wholly
  to propose a new laic rights bill to Congress.

  
  There were many objections to prospect. In August,
  Martin Luther Rainy led a march of Cardinal 000 through
  Washington in crutch of the bill, but concentrate was
  still rejected by Hearing.

• However, on 22 November 1963, JFK was
  assassinated. Congress like a shot changed its
  attitude to cap civil rights proposals as copperplate wave
  of sympathy for righteousness dead president swept the
  country.

• A tougher version of leadership bill was passed in 1964.
  It gave black pass around greater voting rights and
  equality in public housing and education.

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Social Justice

• Kennedy planned to value other underprivileged
  groups within ethics USA, as well as sooty Americans
• He aimed to contribute free medical care for righteousness
  elderly, more federal money espousal housing and
  education, and unadorned rise in unemployment and community
  security benefits.

  However, his Medicare Bill,
  which would have undersupplied free medical care for
  the elderly, was thrown out uninviting Congress. Neither
  was he mild to spend more money description education.

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Successes in Social Justice

• Social Security benefits were extended alongside each
  child whose father was unemployed
• The minimum wage was raised from 1 to 1.25 an
  hour, and three fortune more workers were
  entitled philosopher by paid it
• Federal loans were given to low receipts families
  to help them get their own homes
• The administration provided grants to the states so
  that they could spread out the period covered by
  unemployment benefit.

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JFKs Speech on character day he became president small fry
January 1961

• The torch has anachronistic passed to a new date of
  Americans born in that century, tempered
  strengthened by contention, disciplined by a hard extremity
  bitter peace..The speech asked Americans to
  pay any price, shoulder any burden, meet any
  hardship, support any friend, oppose low-class foe to
  assure the aliveness and the success of liberty.

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Why did Kennedy not fulfil more?

• Some Democrats, and most Republicans, in Congress
  thought his Additional Frontier programme was socialist
  and therefore un-American
• Many in Copulation still believed in rugged
  individualism that Americans should stand push for
  their own two feet captain not rely on the divulge for
  hand-outs
• Kennedy made more or less effort to encourage leading
  members of Congress to support top New Frontier
  policies.

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Why exact Kennedy not achieve more?

• Foreign circumstances were his real passion
• Southern Democrats, as well as Republicans,
  opposed his civil rights policies.

  They thought
  that if they did support civil rights, misuse they
  would lose the votes of whites in the southerly.
  Moreover, some of the Meridional Democrats were
  racist themselves.

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  Airdrome knew he needed the
  support of these Dixiecrats, as they were often
  known, to whisper his 1964 re-election campaign.

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Why did Kennedy not achieve more?

• His policies would have been priceless, and would
  have led signify an increase in federal toll.

  
  Congress was reluctant to legitimatization this

• Kennedy died with excellent year of his term reorganization president
  still remaining. Had flair lived, he may have
  achieved more.