JFK Thesis statement?

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I need a strong thesis statement involving JFK for a term paper

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JFK is a pivotal president in American history because he was both the "first" and the "last" president in many critical aspects of the executive branch. A young and vigorous President who mirrored America's energetic drive to be a super power, he was the first president to deal with nuclear confrontation with the entire world's future dangling in the balance. He was the last President that the whole of America loved and trusted. Following his presidency, the Viet Nam War and Water Gate destroyed forever America's complete trust in its President and Government (i.e. Congress and Judiciary).

He was the first president to take a dream of all people from all ages and put his country alone on a track to achieve it (i.e. going to the Moon).

He was the first President to leverage television as a means to market his presidency bringing people a highly intimate view of his family. He was the first President to promote democratic ideals globally and then go and do something about it (Peace Corps).

He was the last President who could successfully use America's military globally to affect its foreign policy AND be successful.

He was the first President to enact and ENFORCE civil rights for America's disenfranchised.

He was the last President to grow is family in the White House with his young wife, only to have it end in tragedy.

These and other contrasts make him a pivotal president. Manner of the policies and practices he innovated (press meetings for example) live on until today.

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JFK Thesis statement?
I need a strong thesis statement involving JFK for a term paper

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Kind of tough to advise you. What are your thoughts? feelings? about JFK? Think this through, and then some example thesis statements could be (depending on your opinions) JFK was an ineffective President in his dealings with Congress because......., or The Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts could never have been passed with JFK in the White House because the strong sponsorship of a Southern Democrat was a necessity. Or, If JFK had lived, we would have avoided the Vietnam involvement for the simple reason that...... (You get the idea)

Answer 4

Any study on the assasination of jfk starts with who has the power to relax his protection, who has the power to destroy all the evidence and then why would they want the president killed. If you look at dealey plaza that day you will notice that many windows were open in the buildings around the president which is a huge violation of secret service policy. All of teh presidents secret service protection team were on the ground right behind him in one car(another huge violation of secret service policy). The route was changed the last minutes to put him in direct line for a triangulation of crossfire(another violation). His head flew back when he was struck with the fatal head shot which is impossible if u are blaming oswald who was in the building behind him. Plus as colonel fletcher prouty said he was supposed to be in charge of a team that was supposed to provide military protection for the president, but was called off and was told another team would be there. Well that team never came. This screams of a government conspiracy. No one else had the power to orchestrate this and cover it up afterwords. Now lets get to the WHY PART. why would they want him killed? Kennedy came out with 3 important nsam's(national security actions memorandums), nsam 55, 56, 57 which would have taken the power of post war covert paramilitary actions away from the cia and into the hands of teh joint chiefs of staff, which were directly controlled by the president who was indirectly under the control of the american people. Kennedy saw how uncontrolled covert actions in 3rd world countries without teh presidents control could get us in big trouble abroad and wanted direct control over them. He was stepping on some big toes.Next came nsam 263(which sealed his fate, Nsam 263 stated the first 1000 troops would be out of vietnam by christmas 1963 and all of our troops would be out by 1954. Right after he was killed LBJ signed nsam 273 which gave the green light for covert actions in vietnam which promoted the gulf of tonkin incident , which pulled us full blast into vietnam.Also JFK fired the head of the cia(allen Dulles) because the cia tried to trick the president into providing full air cover during the failed bay of pigs invasion. Kennedy knew if he provided air cover the soviet union would have stepped in and we could have possibly had ww3 on our hands. When jfk was killed the government formed the warren commission to investigate his death, and guess who was one of the head investigators into the president's death. Yep, you guessed it, ALLEN DULLES th ex cia head that jfk fired. the warren comission bullied people, changed testimonies and all to get it to look that it was lee harvey oswald acted alone in teh presidents assasination. Next the government opened a second investigation into teh presidents assasination called the house select comittee on assasinations in 1977, but this time they decided to close up all findings and not allow the american people to know what they found until the year 2029!!! This is rediculous Is this enough info for u dude:)

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy wrote a pulitzer prize winning book called "Profiles in Courage".

He could not have known it when he authored this book, but it is one of the great epitaphs to sum up his own life.

From his childhood, Harvard, Strong willed parents, his heroism of WWII, illness, days in the Senate, surviving the death of his sister and brother in the war, the botched surgery of his sister Rosemary, public humiliation of his father in England, first Roman Catholic President, first President to understand the power of the media, The Bay of Pigs, Civil Rights, loss of his own infant children, Cuban Missle Crisis. Each period of his life was itself, a "Profile in Courage".

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