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
· Kramer, Freda -- 1979, Jackie: A Truly Intimate Biography, Grosset & Dunlap foreign policies of the 30's. It was published the year he graduated cum laude, in 1940 under the title Why England Slept. 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. [Lowe, Jacques -- 1961, Portrait, the Emergence of John F. Kennedy, Bramhall House] · AP writers -- 1968, Triumph and Tragedy - The Story of the Kennedys, Western Printing Faced with the dilemma of choosing a career, he worked for a while with the Hearst newspaper as a reporter. Ultimately he decided on politics. He took the place of his brother Joseph, who has seemed destined for a political career but had been killed in World War II. His opportunity came when James M. Curley vacated his seat in the House to become Mayor of Boston. In 1946, Kennedy ran successfully as a Democrat, he was reelected in 1948 and 1950. As a Congressman, he backed social legislation that benefited his "working-class" constituents. On domestic affairs he followed the Fair Deal policies, fighting for slum clearance and low-cost public housing. As a member of the Education and Labor Committee he wrote his own report opposing the Taft-Harley bill. Kennedy supported President Harry S. Trumans' foreign policies for the most part, although criticizing the administration's weak stand against the Communist Chinese. JFK held a strong, anti-Communist foreign policy thro! · Burke, Richard -- 1992, The Senator, St. Martin's Press tical Analysis] These attempts were futile and in 1962, the Cuban Missile Crisis was on hand. An armed conflict seemed likely but the Russians pulled out and in 1963 we signed a treaty banning atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons with the Soviets. At the height of the Cold War, 1963, he met 27-year-old Ellen Rometsch, a "party-girl". His affair with her posed more serious problems. Because she had grown up in communist East Germany, it was thought extremely detrimental to the presidency for him to be consorting with a once known communist party member. Rometsch was escorted out of the country by Bobby Kennedy's (JFK's brother) long time associates and sent into hiding. [Hersch, Seymour -- 1997, The Dark Side of Camelot] Civil rights was the most difficult national problem for Kennedy. In 1963 he addressed the nation, declaring that the United States faced a "moral crisis" as a result of discontent amongst blacks. [Wood, James -- 1964, The Life and Words of John F. Ke! · Dinneen, Joseph F. -- 1959, The Kennedy Family, Little Brown & Co. · Schlesinger, Arthur -- 1965, A Thousand Days, Houghton Mifflin Co. · Hersch, Seymour -- 1997, The Dark Side of Camelot ttack of Jaundice. In the fall of 1936, he enrolled at Harvard University. John once again attempted athletics but failed after injuring his back playing football. Two trips to Europe sparked Kennedy's love for foreign policies and politics in general. After returning,
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