John F. Kennedy

John Fitzgerald
Kennedy (May 29, 1917
- November 22, 1963),
often referred to as  Order:           35th President
JFK, was the 35th     Term of Office:  January 20, 1961 - November 22, 1963
(1961-1963) President
of the United States. Followed:        Dwight D. Eisenhower
                      Succeeded by:    Lyndon Johnson
Kennedy was the
youngest person so    Date of Birth    Tuesday, May 29, 1917
far to be elected     Place of Birth:  Brookline, Massachusetts
U.S. president        Date of Death:   Friday, November 22, 1963
(although Theodore
Roosevelt was some    Place of Death:  Dallas, Texas
months younger when   First Lady:      Jacqueline Lee Bouvier
he became president   Profession:      politician
upon William
McKinley's death),    Political Party: Democrat
and the first (and as Vice President:  Lyndon Johnson
yet only) Roman
Catholic president. He beat Richard Nixon, Vice President in the previous
administration, in a famous, closely-contested presidential election in
1960. Theodore H. White's 1961 book about that election campaign, The Making
of the President 1960, was not only a national best-seller but is also used
as a supplementary text in high school and college courses in U. S.
government and history.

For various reasons, Kennedy was, during the time he served, perhaps the
most popular president in U.S. history. He was a handsome, photogenic man
who seemed open and accessible, and his administration marked a notable
increase in direct media exposure of the president to the public at large,
through television broadcasts from the Oval Office, televised press
conferences, and numerous photo spreads in popular magazines. The "charisma"
Kennedy and his family projected led to the figurative designation of
"Camelot" for his administration. His glamorous wife "Jackie" was as
newsworthy as he was, and the way they handled personal tragedies,
especially the death of their newborn son Patrick Bouvier Kennedy in August
1963, enhanced their public image.

The house where Kennedy was born in Brookline (in the Boston, Massachusetts,
metropolitan area) is now a National Historic Site, open to the public.[1]
Kennedy served in the US Navy in World War II. While he was captain of a PT
Boat that was sunk in the Pacific Ocean, he sustained a back injury that
plagued him for the remainder of his life, exacerbating a disease the public
did not learn of until long after his death. (In May 2002 a National
Geographic expedition found what is believed to be the wreckage of that
PT-109 in the Solomon Islands [2]) For his book Profiles in Courage,
published in 1956 while he was serving in the US Senate, he was awarded the
Pulitzer Prize. Information released after his death leaves no doubt that he
had at least one, and probably several extramarital affairs while in office,
including liaisons in the White House. Such things were not then considered
fit for publication, and in Kennedy's case, they were never publicly
discussed.

Kennedy was president for only about 1,000 days. This brief tenure was
marked by such notable events as the acceleration of the United States' role
in the space race, the beginning of the escalation of the American role in
the Vietnam War, the Cuban missile crisis, and the Bay of Pigs invasion of
Cuba; these events aggravated the Cold War with the USSR. He appointed his
brother Robert F. Kennedy to his Cabinet as Attorney General.

President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963.
Lee Harvey Oswald, apprehended for the crime, was himself fatally shot by
Jack Ruby before he could be formally charged or brought to trial. Four days
after Kennedy and Oswald were killed, President Lyndon Johnson created the
Warren Commission to investigate the assassination. See John F. Kennedy
assassination for further details of the circumstances surrounding Kennedy's death.

On March 14, 1967 Kennedy's body was moved to a permanent burial place and
memorial at Arlington National Cemetery.

Kennedy's life and the subsequent conspiracy theories surrounding his death
have been the inspiration for many films. Recent ones include Nigel Turner's
1988 mini series The Men Who Killed Kennedy, Oliver Stone's 1991
blockbuster, JFK, and 1993's JFK: Reckless Youth, which looked at Kennedy's
early years.

Kennedy was the most recent Democratic president to push for income tax cuts
to improve the economy. He was also the most recent Northern Democrat to win
the Presidency.

In November of 2002 long-secret medical records were made public, revealing
Kennedy's physical ailments were more severe than previously thought. He was
in constant pain from fractured vertebrae despite multiple medications, in
addition to suffering from severe digestive problems and Addison's disease.
Kennedy would get multiple injections of procaine before press conferences
in order to appear healthy.

Cabinet appointments

   * Secretary of State
        o Dean Rusk
   * Secretary of the Treasury
        o C. Douglas Dillon
   * Secretary of Defense
        o Robert S. McNamara
   * Attorney General
        o Robert F. Kennedy
   * Postmaster General
        o J. Edward Day (1961-1963)
        o John A. Gronouski (1963-1965)
   * Secretary of the Interior
        o Stewart L. Udall
   * Secretary of Agriculture
        o Orville L. Freeman
   * Secretary of Commerce
        o Luther H. Hodges
   * Secretary of Labor
        o Arthur J. Goldberg (1961-1962)
        o W. Willard Wirtz (1962-1969)
   * Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare
        o Abraham A. Ribicoff (1961-1962)
        o Anthony J. Celebrezze (1962-1965)

Supreme Court appointments

   * Byron Raymond White - 1962
   * Arthur Joseph Goldberg - 1962

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