...John F. Kennedy vs. Richard Nixon Sarah 6/29/15 HIWD 375-B01 Paper The Vietnam War was a war of change. It took America into a new frontier. With President John F. Kennedy pushing to end communism, Vietnam looked like the ideal place to accomplish his goals. Even though the war pushed on after his death, President Nixon sought to put an end to the war and bring American troops home. Even though these presidents had very differing opinions of the war, the Vietnam War raged on, changing America politically, culturally, and socially. Before the Vietnam War broke out, Kennedy and Nixon both had military backgrounds. Kennedy was in the United States Navy from 1941-1945. “On August 2, 1943 [during World War 2], as PT 109 was running silent to avoid detection it was struck by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri.” This devastating accident resulted in Kennedy saving his men and then receiving many metals and honors for this heroic act. This occurrence changed Kennedy for life. Nixon as well was in the United States Navy from 1942-1946. Nixon saw no combat during his time in the navy however he was officer in charge of the Combat Air Transport Command at Guadalcanal in the Solomon’s and then at Green Island. Nixon became a Lieutenant Commander which set the stage for his future career as President. These two men had very different experience at war which contributed to the way they viewed war and responded to it. This military history in each of these men’s lives, proved vital...
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...John F. Kennedy was elected as the youngest president of the United states of America, also having one of the shortest presidencies in American history. The thirty-fifth president is well known for his assassination, bringing an end to his already short presidency. He lived a short life, brutally murdered at forty-six. When people think of Mr. Kennedy, most would think of his assassination, and the horrible rumors that were told about him. Early life and childhood: John F. Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts on May 29, 1917. He was one of nine children. Politics: John F. Kennedy had a democratic worldview. One of Mr. Kennedy’s primary concerns was the potential of a nuclear war between the US and the Soviet Union, that, luckily did not end up taking place. President Kennedy lived up to his famous quote, “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.” By creating the Peace Corps, where American Citizens are able to volunteer all over the world. JFK was also avid in helping with the journey to space. "No nation which expects to be the leader of other...
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...John F. Kennedy Doctrines John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on May 29 1917 in Brookline, Massachusetts, the 2nd son to Joseph Patrick Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald. He was educated at The Choate School and Graduated from Harvard College in 1940 with a science degree. He joined the Navy in 1941 as an intelligence officer and was awarded medal for heroism by the Marines and the Navy. One year after completing his military service, at the age of 29, he was elected to the House of Representatives and served three terms. In 1953 he was elected to the Senate, served one term and was elected to serve a second term, while there he served as a member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. He won the 35th office of President in 1960 with one of the closest victories in the history of elections. He was the youngest president to be elected to the office at that time. (The Biography Channel webite. Retrieved 04:52) During his time in office, President Kennedy was drawn to foreign affairs due to the challenges brought on due to the Soviet Unions growing nuclear arsenal and the Cold War battle that provoked fear in the hearts and minds of third world nations. He capitalized on the spirit of activism and created the Peace Corps; by the end of the century over 170,000 volunteers would serve in 135 countries. He also created the Alliance for Progress to foster greater economic ties with Latin America with the hopes of eliminating poverty and preventing the spread of communism in that...
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...John F. Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917 in Brookline, Massachusetts. Died on November 2, 1963 in Dallas, Texas. He had died at the age of 49. His family included: his mom, Rose Kennedy, his dad, Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., his brothers Robert F. Kennedy, Ted Kennedy, Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., and his sisters Rosemary Kennedy, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Kathleen Cavendish, Jean Kennedy Smith, and Patricia Kennedy Lawford. Kennedy's grew up in a very wealthy and dominant Irish Catholic Boston family. Kennedy had been nicknamed, "Jack", when he was younger by his older siblings who all were closely involved in each other's lives throughout the years. Kennedy had been a bad student and a mischievous boy when he was young. He had attended an all boys Catholic school named...
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...go over such things as the law of the lid, navigation, influence, process, addition, and solid ground. Under these laws, they have different steps in which the leading is different. Over the course of the years, we have had a lot of Presidents and a lot of different leading styles among them, some of them being good and some of them being nowhere near good. But we had to live with them and they have to live with themselves. In the movie Fog of War, Robert McNamara tries to go over the eleven lessons that he learned from being under the President of John F. Kennedy. McNamara lends us his knowledge of what went wrong during those years. During President John F. Kennedy's term, while McNamara was Secretary of Defense, America's troops in Vietnam increased from 900 to 16,000 advisers, who were not supposed to engage in combat but rather to train the Army of the Republic of Vietnam. The number of combat advisers in Vietnam when Kennedy died vary depending upon source. The first military adviser deaths in Vietnam occurred in 1957 or 59 under the Eisenhower Administration, which had infiltrated Vietnam, through the efforts of Stanley Sheinbaum, with an unknown number of CIA operatives and other...
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...face one crisis after another, on the international stage and at home. • The Bay of Pigs – a failed attempt by US CIA-led forces to overthrow the Fidel Castro-dictated Cuban government initiated less than three months after JFK took office. • The Cuban missile crisis – one of his most defining moments, Kennedy made Russian chairman Nikita Khrushchev accede to our demands to pull their weaponry out of Cuba. Kennedy initiated a blockade of Soviet ships headed towards Cuba and told Khrushchev the blockade would be in force until the arms were removed. • The economy – was shaky and the unemployment rate was at levels similar to what we’re experiencing now. Kennedy loosened monetary policy to keep interest rates down and the economy turned around and prospered. • He promoted the equal rights revolution, laying the groundwork for the Civil Rights Act. • The space program and his challenge to send a man to the moon within a decade culminated with success, and the computer advances it generated had undreamt of consequences. Without a doubt John F. Kennedy has become one of America's most favorite presidents. Among his greatest accomplishments was his leadership during the Cuban missile crisis and the establishment of the Peace Corps. In contrast to his success, however, the Bay of Pigs invasion and his stance on civil rights showed him at his worst. Yet more than Kennedy's successes and failures, his ability to inspire many Americans to serve their country...
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...Fact and Fiction of Irish Americans History of the Immigration Beginning almost 300 years ago Irish immigrants were among the first large groups of people to migrate to the New World. With years of wars, famine, and religious persecution in Ireland, these people came to America to build a new life. Not afraid of hard work the Irish came and built a life they could be proud of; although the Irish American believes that they have been victim of discrimination. NINA ‘No Irish Need Apply’ and WASP ‘White Anglo Saxon Protestant’ is and ingrained belief that the Irish American’s “remember” (Jenson, 2004). Another current issue is the unjust treatment of the Irish seeking political asylum in the United States (McElrath, 1997). The first Irish immigrants came in the 1580s to the Carolinas long before the founding of the United States of America. It is believed that possibly hundreds of thousands of Protestant Irish immigrated in these early years. This is contrary to the urban myth of the Irish Catholic American origins (Meagher, 2009). The next big migration of Irish to America was in the 1700s to 1820s. These immigrants assimilated easily into the American way of life as most prospered at a rate that could not have been conceived in Ireland. “Nearly half of General Washington’s continental arm, including 1492 officers and 22 generals, were of Irish descent” (American Immigration law Foundation, 2001, p. 1). Even with the influx of Irish throughout early history of America...
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...Civil Rights in the Sixties The 1960s brought about social change in America. America elected the second youngest and the first Catholic president (John F. Kennedy) and the Anti-War Movement began. The Anti-War Movement was based on people mostly the youth of America protesting a war (Vietnam War) that they believed America could not win. At the same time people were protesting the war they were objecting to the social injustice surrounding minorities; thus began the Civil Rights Movement. The Montgomery Bus Boycott was instrumental in starting The Civil Rights Movement the yearlong battle for equal treatment on buses gave minorities the strength to fight for more equal treatment and gave rise to Martin Luther King Jr. who was elected by the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) to lead the boycott. During The Montgomery Bus Boycott whites tried to use the media to put out false stories by claiming the boycott have come to an end and that minorities settled for the same moderate desegregation plan that they received before the boycott. Public opion in Montgomery Alabama at first was against the boycott, but once the business community realized they were losing money because minorities were no longer shopping downtown their opion began to wane. Throughout the civil rights movement the media was a constant force some believe that without the media exposing the at times moving and often unsightly events of the movement that it would not advanced as much as it did. Some Southern...
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...John F. Kennedy was the 35th president of the united states. He was elected president in 1961 and was assassinated in 1963. His time in office will long be remembered because he did a lot for the US and with my understanding he was the most liked. Being president wasn't the only thing Kennedy accomplished in his life he also went to college and joined the army! John F Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917 in Brookline, Massachusetts to Joseph and Rose Kennedy he was the second of nine children. Kennedy's family were multimillionaire and had a history of politicial and public service. During his childhood he was very ill and caused him to miss a lot of school about two mouths at a time unfortionatly this forced him to withdraw from Princeton. Before attending Princeton he attended Canterbury parochial(1930-31)and Choate school(1931-35) after dropping out of Princeton he recovered and went to Harvard their he majored in international relations and government. After he majored this he wanted to join the army to support his country, sadly they didn't except him because of...
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...30-year-old man named Jake. He’s a high school English teacher in the year 2011. Almost every night he eats at Al’s Diner where he knows the owner, Al. Al is about 45 years old and full of life, but one day Jake suddenly notices he’s becoming very sick and weak. Turns out Al has been traveling back in time to the year 1960 and experiencing time back then. Al opens up the opportunity to Jake of going back in time, as Al is now developing cancer. Al gives Jake the mission of going back to 1960 and stopping President John F. Kennedy from being assassinated. Along the way, Jake finds himself changing the future as we know it. He ends up in some tricky situations, such as lying about where he comes from and falling in love with a girl with a messed up past. It’s not an alternate reality sort of book, but it is a great thriller. When I first started reading 11/22/63, I assumed the book would tell me about how King imagined what the future would be like if John F. Kennedy wasn’t assassinated, but I was so wrong. He shows more of a time-travel and action story than a “what would happen if...” story. King is outstanding at providing very sensory details. He made me feel as though I could taste...
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...This culminating activity included two essays and a picture all about inaugurations. Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961, the given speech, was given by John F. Kennedy. Inside Kennedy’s Inauguration, 50 Years On, the given essay, was written by Eleanor Clift and included the memories, given from the friends and family of John F. Kennedy, of the inauguration. The three components of the activity have mainly similar styles each of which gives their own perspective and contrasting techniques to portray the inauguration of JFK. The first article was a speech for the inauguration, the second was telling of the details people didn’t see, and the photograph showed what people wouldn’t get from a simple composition and let people study all the...
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...Was John F. Kennedy really a good president? On November 8, 1960, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was elected president. About 3 years after that, he was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. The assassination has been questioned to this day about whether or not the assassination was unjust or justified. The assassination of JFK was justified because he caused the Cuban Missile Crisis and The Bay of Pigs invasion; however, others believe differently about his actions. Kennedy’s assassination was justified because of the Cuban Missile Crisis. The United States provoked the Soviet Union into what could have been nuclear war. Before JFK placed the nuclear missiles in Turkey, Nikita Khrushchev, a Soviet Premier, placed missiles in...
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...According to the length of the history of the United States, there were four sitting president presidents have been killed by gunshot: Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield, William McKinley and John F. Kennedy. Up to now, after more than 53 years since “the judgement day”, the government has not figured the accurate answer about the death of Kennedy as well as the murder who killed him, everything we are having right now is just theories, and enigmatic ideas. Apparently, each of presidents has their own mystery and ambiguous things behind it, however, the last president’s assassination (John F Kennedy) was the most confused and cryptic one, which still have no believable stories that willing to clarify dubious thinking of US people. Thus, this...
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...Time Capsule Latanya Gonzalez Kaplan University SS310-14 Time Capsule The year is 2325 and being the prominent archeologist I have become, I have been summoned to a dig site where a time capsule from the 1960’s has been discovered. After carefully unearthing this delicate finding, my colleagues and I discover five significant things from the 1960’s. First brought out is an antiwar sign, obviously hand made. Second from the capsule is a portrait of our 35th President, President John F. Kennedy. Third is the Woman’s Movement of the 1960’s. Fourth is a portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr. The final, fifth item to be brought from the time capsule, is the Civil Rights Movement. Each item is a significant and defining factor of the 1960’s era; a part of history that remains embedded in the American people’s minds and hearts. The antiwar handheld sign was the first to come out of the time capsule. This sign is still legible. The sign is a wood stick with a thin flat 4X4 piece of wood stapled to it. The flat wood sign has “Stop the War” spray-painted in red on one side. On the other side of the flat wood board is a peace sign spray-painted in yellow. The wood stick had a thin scarf tied to it still. This piece of history has significant meaning to the antiwar era of the 1960’s. This sign most likely was held and waved through the air at many of the antiwar protest often held by the so-called hippies of the 60’s. Many individuals who were against the war in Vietnam...
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... John F. Kennedy (USA President: 1961-1963) November 22, 1963 |October 28, 1962 |October 22, 1962 |October 16, 1962 |May 25, 1961 |January 20, 1961 |November 8, 1960 |May 29, 1917 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |JFK is assassinated while riding through the streets of Dallas, Texas. Lyndon Johnson becomes president |Soviet Union agrees to remove its missiles from Cuba |JFK announces naval quarantine of Cuba |The U.S. obtains photos of Soviet missile emplacements in Cuba, bringing about the Cuban Missile Crisis |President John F. Kennedy's "Man on the Moon" Address |John F. Kennedy is sworn in as President of the United States and makes his inaugural address |JFK defeats Nixon and becomes president |Birth of John F. Kennedy in Brookline, Massachusetts | | Meital David – ID#: 039024898 Alon E. Nachmany – ID#: 302259593 John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on May 29th, 1917, into a rich, politically connected Boston family of Irish-Catholics. Even though his childhood was abundant with frequent and serious illnesses; John still strove to create his own path in life, writing a best-selling book, while still attending Harvard University, and volunteering for combat in World War II. After the war, John pursued journalism, but soon after entered politics, serving the US House of Representatives (1947 – 1953) and the Senate (1953 – 1961). The most significant events in Kennedy's life were soon to follow. After making his mark in the political field, Kennedy announced...
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