JFK
Statesman and thirty-fifth United States President (1961-63), John Fitzgerald Kennedy, born in Brookline, Massachusetts, on May 29, 1917 was the first president born in the 20th century, the youngest man ever elected to the Presidency and the first of the Roman Catholic faith. He was the second of nine children born to Joseph P. Kennedy, Harvard graduate, bank president at 25, multimillionaire, head of the Securities and Exchange Commission, and ambassador to Great Britain and his wife, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, daughter of John Francis Fitzgerald, mayor of Boston. JFK had a happy childhood, full of family games and sports. Encouraged by his father to take part in school athletics, John, wiry, but thin, played in half a dozen sports without ever making varsity. [Lee, Bruce -- 1964, Boys' Life of John F. Kennedy, Sterling Publishing] He attended private, not parochial, elementary schools spent a year at Canterbury School, graduated 64th/112, "Most likely to succeed", from Choa!te School in Wallingford, Connecticut. JFK spent the Summer of '35 studying at the London School of Economics. [Lee, Bruce -- 1964, Boys' Life of John F. Kennedy, Sterling Publishing] He entered Princeton University but was forced to leave because of an a
Soon after his inauguration, the president acted on his anti-Communism by giving military assistance to the Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba. On domestic affairs he followed the Fair Deal policies, fighting for slum clearance and low-cost public housing. But she defined her major role as "to take care of the President" and added that "if you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much. Domestically, much of the Kennedy program was unfulfilled, brought to fruition during the Johnson Administration. After that, he set his goal for the Presidency. That summer, he spent time studying at Stanford University Graduate School of business and on into the next year while simultaneously touring multiple countries in Latin America. Patrick Bouvier, born prematurely on August 7, 1963, died two days later. ] He promoted social legislation, including federal desegregation and brought American aid to developing nations. Senators, American political heroes. During parts of 1954 and 1955 JFK was seriously ill and was thus unable to play an important role in government. Rometsch was escorted out of the country by Bobby Kennedy's (JFK's brother) long time associates and sent into hiding. Much controversy still remains concerning the death of our 35th president and speculation about conspiracy theories lay dormant in unreleased govern!ment files despite the Warren Commission's (the appointed investigation committee) conclusions. Ke!nnedy, Country Beautiful and Doubleday] Later that month he sent a message to Congress calling for extensive civil rights legislation. As a Congressman, he backed social legislation that benefited his "working-class" constituents. In the fall of 1936, he enrolled at Harvard University.
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