Around a. But PT was rammed at an angle and cut in half by Japanese destroyer Amagiri. Instead of surrendering, Kennedy and his surviving 10 crew-members swam to the tiny deserted Plum Pudding Island , from where they were rescued. Also, despite being injured, Kennedy used a life jacket strap to tow his badly-burned senior enlisted mate. For leading his men to safety, John F. Kennedy was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal , the highest non-combat decoration awarded for heroism by the U.
Navy; as well as the Purple Heart Medal for injuries. In the United States presidential election , John F. At the age of 43 , he was and remains the youngest ever elected U. However, Theodore Roosevelt is the youngest person to ever become U. He succeeded to the presidency, at age 42 , following the assassination of President McKinley.
To date, JFK is the only president to have won a Pulitzer Prize , which he won in for his volume of short biographies Profiles in Courage. He also remains the only Roman Catholic president. He carried out various measures to boost the economy under his own executive anti-recessionary acceleration program. Among other things, the most significant tax reforms since the New Deal were carried out including a new investment tax credit.
GDP which had grown by an average of only 2. President John F. Kennedy was slammed hard against the cockpit, once again injuring his weak back. Patrick McMahon, one of his crew members, had horrible burns on his face and hands and was ready to give up. In the darkness, Lt. Kennedy managed to find McMahon and haul him back to where the other survivors were clinging to a piece of the boat that was still afloat.
At sunrise, Lt. Kennedy led his men toward a small island several miles away. Despite his own injuries, Lt. Six days later two native islanders found them and went for help, delivering a message Jack had carved into a piece of coconut shell. The next day, the PT crew was rescued. He died a year later when his plane blew up during a dangerous mission in Europe. When he returned home, Jack was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for his leadership and courage. With the war finally coming to an end, it was time to choose the kind of work he wanted to do.
After serious discussions with Jack about his future, Joseph Kennedy convinced him that he should run for Congress in Massachusetts' eleventh congressional district, where he won in As the years went on, John F.
Kennedy, a Democrat, served three terms six years in the House of Representatives, and in he was elected to the US Senate. Soon after being elected senator, John F. Kennedy, at 36 years of age, married 24 year-old Jacqueline Bouvier, a writer with the Washington Times-Herald. While recovering from surgery, he wrote a book about several US Senators who had risked their careers to fight for the things in which they believed.
The book, called Profiles in Courage , was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for biography in John F. Kennedy was becoming a popular politician. In he was almost picked to run for vice president. Kennedy nonetheless decided that he would run for president in the next election.
He began working very long hours and traveling all around the United States on weekends. On July 13, the Democratic party nominated him as its candidate for president. Kennedy asked Lyndon B. Johnson, a senator from Texas, to run with him as vice president. Nixon in a very close race. At the age of 43, Kennedy was the youngest man elected president and the first Catholic.
Before his inauguration, his second child, John Jr. His father liked to call him John-John. Kennedy was sworn in as the 35th president on January 20, In his inaugural speech he spoke of the need for all Americans to be active citizens. He also asked the nations of the world to join together to fight what he called the "common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself.
The Kennedys believed that the White House should be a place to celebrate American history, culture, and achievement. They invited artists, writers, scientists, poets, musicians, actors, and athletes to visit them. Jacqueline Kennedy also shared her husband's interest in American history. Everyone was impressed and appreciated her hard work. There was a pre-school, a swimming pool, and a tree-house outside on the White House lawn.
President Kennedy was probably the busiest man in the country, but he still found time to laugh and play with his children. However, the president also had many worries. One of the things he worried about most was the possibility of nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union. He knew that if there was a war, millions of people would die.
Since World War II, there had been a lot of anger and suspicion between the two countries but never any shooting between Soviet and American troops. This 'Cold War', which was unlike any other war the world had seen, was really a struggle between the Soviet Union's communist system of government and the United States' democratic system.
Because they distrusted each other, both countries spent enormous amounts of money building nuclear weapons. There were many times when the struggle between the Soviet Union and the United States could have ended in nuclear war, such as in Cuba during the missile crisis or over the divided city of Berlin.
President Kennedy worked long hours, getting up at seven and not going to bed until eleven or twelve at night, or later.
He read six newspapers while he ate breakfast, had meetings with important people throughout the day, and read reports from his advisers. He wanted to make sure that he made the best decisions for his country.
The New Frontier was not a place but a way of thinking and acting. President Kennedy wanted the United States to move forward into the future with new discoveries in science and improvements in education, employment and other fields. He wanted democracy and freedom for the whole world. One of the first things President Kennedy did was to create the Peace Corps.
Through this program, which still exists today, Americans can volunteer to work anywhere in the world where assistance is needed. They can help in areas such as education, farming, health care, and construction. Many young men and women have served as Peace Corps volunteers and have won the respect of people throughout the world.
President Kennedy was also eager for the United States to lead the way in exploring space. The Soviet Union was ahead of the United States in its space program and President Kennedy was determined to catch up.
He said, "No nation which expects to be the leader of other nations can expect to stay behind in this race for space. President Kennedy had to deal with many serious problems here in the United States. The biggest problem of all was racial discrimination.
His first year was a disaster, as he himself acknowledged. His summit meeting in Vienna with the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev was a humiliating experience. Most of his legislative proposals died on Capitol Hill. Yet he was also responsible for some extraordinary accomplishments. The most important, and most famous, was his adept management of the Cuban missile crisis in , widely considered the most perilous moment since World War II. Most of his military advisers—and they were not alone—believed the United States should bomb the missile pads that the Soviet Union was stationing in Cuba.
Kennedy, aware of the danger of escalating the crisis, instead ordered a blockade of Soviet ships. In the end, a peaceful agreement was reached. Afterward, both Kennedy and Khrushchev began to soften the relationship between Washington and Moscow. Kennedy, during his short presidency, proposed many important steps forward. The following day, after almost two years of mostly avoiding the issue of civil rights, he delivered a speech of exceptional elegance, and launched a drive for a civil-rights bill that he hoped would end racial segregation.
He also proposed a voting-rights bill and federal programs to provide health care to the elderly and the poor. Few of these proposals became law in his lifetime—a great disappointment to Kennedy, who was never very successful with Congress. Kennedy was the youngest man ever elected to the presidency, succeeding the man who, at the time, was the oldest. He symbolized—as he well realized—a new generation and its coming-of-age. He was the first president born in the 20th century, the first young veteran of World War II to reach the White House.
A witty and articulate speaker, he seemed built for the age of television. To watch him on film today is to be struck by the power of his presence and the wit and elegance of his oratory. His celebrated inaugural address was filled with phrases that seemed designed to be carved in stone, as many of them have been.
Another contributor to the Kennedy legend, something deeper than his personal attractiveness, is the image of what many came to call grace. He not only had grace, in the sense of performing and acting gracefully; he was also a man who seemed to receive grace. He was handsome and looked athletic. He was wealthy.
He had a captivating wife and children, a photogenic family. He sprinkled his public remarks with quotations from poets and philosophers. The Kennedy family helped create his career and, later, his legacy.
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