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What Does it Take to be a Great President?

 

John F Kennedy

 

  

 

 

 

Where I Lived:

Brookline, MA

Blog: http://iamediacenter.blogspot.com

Website: Official White House Biography

 

About Me:

This is where you write an intro, a blurb about yourself, things you are proud of, or something to grab your readers' attention. 

 

Date of Birth:

May 29, 1917 in Brookline, Massachusetts

Date of Death:

November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas

Sex:

Male

Political Views:

Democrat

 

Religious Views:

Roman Catholic

 

Years Served as President:

1960-1963

 

Status:

Jacqueline Kennedy

 

Children:

Caroline B. Kennedy (1957-)

John F. Kennedy, Jr. (1960-1999)

Patrick B. Kennedy (1963-died two days after birth)

 

Looking for:

Friendship

 

Occupations:

President, Senator, War Hero

 

Interests/Hobbies:

• Pranks
• Public service
• Writing

 

Education:

• Canterbury parochial school (1930-1931)
• Choate School (1931-1935)
• Princeton University (1935-withdrew for illness)
• Harvard University (graduated 1940 with a bachelor of science degree)
• Stanford University (graduate studies)

 

Favorite Books:

Profiles in Courage

 

Favorite Movies:

Assassin of Youth (1937)

Potrait d'un assassin (1949)

 

Favorite Music:

Beattles, Elvis

 

Friends:

• Marilyn Monroe 
• Lyndon Johnson
• Robert S. Mcnamara
• Dean Rusk
• Robert F. Kennedy
• Sergent Shriver

Sports:

• golf
• shooting
• water polo

 

During my stint as president, the political, social and economic factors and challenges that I had to deal with (at home) included:

 

Political

• dealing with the civil rights movement
• I created a civil rights bill to give African Americans little freedom.
• I dealt with constant urge from congress to invade cuba.

 

Social

• Black and white youths supported by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)  challenge the idea of segregation

• segregation in transport facilities and schools were called unconstitutional

• tried to increase educational aid, and decrease medical insurance. 

 

Economic

• reduced the amount of imports to help internation trade.
• business bankrupts at its highest since Great Depression
• increased the minimum wage, and reduced taxes.

 

 

During my stint as president, the political, social and economic factors and challenges that I had to deal with (abroad) included:

 

Political

• Soviet Union cuban missile surprise.
• war in Vietnam
• sticked into Canada's business whenever I found it profitable.

 

Social

• showed i can also speak german by saying “Ich bin ein Berliner” in Germany.

• south vietnamese president assasination creates a media crisis in both vietnam and USA.

• Improved relations with Soviet Union and tried to keep peace.

 

Economic

• further trade was cancelled due to the nuclear missile bases on Cuba.
• I tried my best to help people who suffered in other countires by sending volunteers to help them, and still earn money.
• 1/5th of the nation mulled by poverty, and tried to make every law help these people.

 

Looking back at my presidential career, I had to wear several "hats."  Wearing these different "hats," these were my most significant achievements and failures:

 

Commander-in-Chief

I lead America in the Vietnam War, and nearly finished off the Vietnam War.

Chief Executive

I created the Peace Corps by persuading the Congress.

Chief Diplomat

I persuaded Soviet Union to not use nuclear missiles, and eventually stopped the destruction of teh entire world.

Ceremonial Head of State

I came and open many businesses, and in many ways introduced Television and radio uses to increase popularity.

Manager of the Economy

I decreased imports by raising taxes to help domestic and international trade.

Party Leader

I changed the parties views by focusing on the poor and the middle class people by promising them higher wages, educational aid, and more jobs.

National Leader

Pledges that United States will land a man in the moon and succeeds.

 

Favorite Quote About Me by a Famous Historian:

"When Kennedy spoke, he spoke for a generation that had been in the war, had shared and shaped that purpose, and that was in no mood to see this country once again turn its back on the world or on the possibility of aggression." - James Q. Wilson.

 

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 FAVORITE QUOTE BY ME:

"One Hundred years of delay have passed since President Lincoln freed the slaves, yet their heirs, their grandsons, are not fully free. They are not yet freed from teh bonds of injustice. They are not yet freed from social and economic oppression. And this nation, for all its hopes and its boasts, will not be free until its citizens are free".

 

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Works Cited:

 "John Fitzgerald Kennedy." Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2nd ed. 17 Vols. Gale Research, 1998.

Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2008. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC

 

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