My project is on John F. Kennedy. Kennedy was the thirty-fifth president. He was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, on May 29,1917. He was the second son of Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Kennedy. He graduated from Harvard University in 1940, the entered the navy.
His own part in the war was distinguished by bravery. In August 1943 he rescued several of his crewmen, on boat PT-109, after a Japanese destroyer off the Solomon Island had rammed the boat.
When he returned home to Boston he joined the Democratic Party and successfully ran for the U.S House of Representatives in 1946. Voters elected him to the U.S Senate in 1952. The next year he married Jacqueline Bouvier, they were the parents of two children Caroline Bouvier and John F. Kennedy Jr.
After an unsuccessful attempt to win the Vice-President nomination in 1956, Kennedy began to plan for presidential election of 1960. He assumed leadership of the Democratic Party's liberal wing. He won the nomination on the first ballot. The issues of defense and economic stagnation were raised in four televised debates. Kennedy won the election by a narrow margin but had to accept reduced Democratic majorities in Congress. He was the youngest President elected and the first Roman Catholic.
In 1961, which was his first year in office, Kennedy was loaded down with a series of adverse international developments. His Inaugural Address offered the memorable injunction: "Ask not what your country can do for you- ask what you can do for your country." His economic programs launched the country on its longest sustained expansion since World War 2. Before his death he laid plans for a massive assault on persisting pockets of privation and poverty. Kennedy had a secret plan to overthrow the Cuban regime of Premier Fidel Castro. Shortly after his inauguration Kennedy permitted a band of Cuban exiles, already armed and trained, to invade their homeland. The...