How and why is John F. Kennedy important or interesting to you,personally?

Answer 1

Late in 1961 President John F. Kennedy decided to eventually send 16,000 U.S. military advisers to South Vietnam. His administration misread China's objectives as a drive for regional hegemony, saw Ho Chi Minh as a Communist first, and a nationalist second, and failed to analyze the many assumptions it had about China and Vietnam critically.

Answer 2

John F Kennedy was a war hero, during WWII. He was the youngest President ever elected. He was the only Catholic President. He faced down the Soviet Union over Missiles in Cuba. He made some blunders that resonated for decades, and in fact, still do. He was the last American President to be assassinated. He made it with Marilyn Monroe. His Brother has the largest head I have ever seen on a Human Being.

Answer 3

This is a good question. Here are a few points from me:

1. He was the mortal of the communist hunter Richard Nixon yet he turned out to be the most ardent anti-communist between Truman and Reagan, whereas Nixon as president turned out to be the first president to ever visit communist China and communist Russia. Quite the ironic twist.

2. He was portrayed as a family man yet he and his wife lived a love-less marriage with little intimacy and no faithfulness of Kennedy's part; he cheated repeatedly on Jackie, and was always distant and emotionally unattached to his children.

3. He was portrayed as young and athletic, yet he often used crutches to get around the White House and could barely walk at various times in his presidency due to his back injury and Addison's Disease.

4. He is portrayed as a valien fighter for civil rights yet in his private correspondence he showed little emotional interest in the cause of black Americans and seemed to only support those measures which he felt were politically profitible to him.

5. He is portrayed as one of our best speakers as president yet he wrote NONE of his own speeches (Theodore Sorensen did) and ALL of his famous lines for which he is remembered flowed from the pen of someone else, he merely said them.

6. He fought against organized crime and corruption, yet his election was facilitated by voter fraud in at least three major cities and his father earned the family's fortune thorough illegal activities during the Great Depression.


So to summarize, Kennedy was really TWO men. the public image that people fell in love with and the private man that onloy serious scholars know anything about. He was truely a man of many contradictions.

Answer 4

I lived through his terms as President. He was a likable man, charming and He and his wife were the closest thing we ever had to royalty. Mostly now, I think how much sorrow and loss that family has gone through. I have been much disappointed in all the scandals revealed posthumously.
My brother met him on a snow plough the night before his second inauguration. He said he was just a regular fellow.

Answer 5

He started the Vietnam war, Bungled the bay of pigs invasion, Almost started a nuclear war with Russia, and got himself assassinated. I think his penchant for partying and orgies is interesting also that he is one of the most highly regarded U.S. presidents for absolutely no good reason.

Answer 6

one good thing he did was to remove the Russian missiles from Cuba without firing a shot. the closest we came to a war with Russia in the cold war.

Answer 7

Mostly I wonder, what did he do, to get himself murdered by a conspiracy.