Would this country be better or worse off if J.F. Kennedy was't killed? Please explain why.
2007-08-08 06:27:35 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Better off. He was a great man with integrity.
He started the space program, advanced civil rights, initiated a nuclear test ban, stood down Russia with the Cuban missile crisis, started the peace corps (as president). He did all this in under 3 years.
He was a war hero before coming president to boot.
2007-08-08 06:36:24 · answer #1 · answered by mark 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Probably better than LBJ did for us. Kennedy seems to get a free pass on getting us into Vietnam and the Bay of Pigs fiasco, but he was tough on the Mafia and the Soviet Union.
Would JFK have made a welfare state out of the civil rights movement? probably not, but that may have resulted in more discontent & rioting. Would JFK have escalated our involvement in Vietnam like LBJ did? It's hard to say.
I don't think there would be much of a difference in todays USA if he hadn't been killed, I also think he would have struggled with a lot of the difficulties of the later 60's as well.
2007-08-08 13:44:32 · answer #2 · answered by heavysarcasm 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
JFK was an anti-communist, not an anti-capitalist like most democrats today. Maybe if a great democrat icon like JFK was still alive, they would be more aware of the greater danger: socialism and not capitalism. The anti-capitalists of today use things like global warming as an excust to try to destroy America's industry, just like the environmentalists use terrorism for the same purpose.
2007-08-08 13:34:26 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I dont know really. I would be good not to have to deal with all the conspiracy theories surronding his death thats for sure. JFK is my favorite Democrat president. He was much more conservative then the democrats will ever admit. He believed in cutting taxes for everyone. He also believed in serving your country not assuming your country will take care of you like todays liberals would have it.
2007-08-08 13:41:36 · answer #4 · answered by Devdude 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Build a time machine go back to 1963 and find out.
While your there pick up 10 shares of Berkshire Hathaway for me.
2007-08-08 13:34:18 · answer #5 · answered by Morty Smith C137 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think it would have been better off because we may have gotten out of Vietnam more quickly, AND JFK may have kept Nixon out of office--certainly long enough that Nixon may not have gotten involved in the Watergate crimes. Those two national events, Vietnam and Watergate, are responsible for much of our country's pessimism about government and about our nation in general. We might be a more hopeful country without them.
2007-08-08 13:32:54 · answer #6 · answered by Vaughn 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Much better. I don't have time to write a doctoral thesis but he was planning to abolish the Federal Reserve after he returned from Dallas. Perhaps that is why he didn't return...
2007-08-08 13:32:25 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
I'm not into what ifs. He isn't, he didn;t, they killed him and here we are. And that is plenty to deal with.
2007-08-08 13:41:34 · answer #8 · answered by gone 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i love marylin monroe so i will play the 5th on this question.
2007-08-08 13:31:49 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 4⤋