John Fitzgerald Kennedy

JFK graduated from Harvard in 1940 and shortly thereafter joined the U.S. Navy serving with distinction in World War II. In 1943, when his PT boat was rammed and sunk by a Japanese destroyer, JFK, despite severe injuries, led the survivors to safety ("John F. Kennedy," 2003). Following his service in the Navy, he returned home and soon after entered politics becoming a Congressman from his native Boston area. In 1953 he advanced to the U.S. Senate and married Jacqueline Bouvier the same year.

JFK's political ascension was very fast. By 1956 he had received such notoriety within the Democratic Party that he almost gained the party's nomination for Vice President. In 1960 he was a "first-ballot" nominee for President ("John F. Kennedy," 2003). He would go on to win the election of 1960 by a narrow popular vote becoming the first Roman Catholic President. Barely past his first 1000 days in office he was assassinated while visiting Dallas Texas. While he became the youngest man to ever be elected President, his assassination also gained him the dubious distinction of being the younges

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internal problems were mounting within the country coupled with economic stagnation and internal pressures to throw off the tyrannical leadership imposed by the Soviet military-bureaucratic ruling class. The economic and political collapse of the Soviet Union was part of the more general economic "catastrophe" of the 1980s and more severe in most of the "Third World" domains of the West than in the "Soviet empire" (Chomsky, 1993). Given the relatively short period of his leadership as President of the United States, it is hard to critically measure his "value" in comparison to his predecessors and successors. JFK's assassination elevated him to the status of martyr and will always cloud judgement as to the quality of his leadership. Contribution to the Cold War There are two (2) important things to note at this point in the discussion. The United States' contribution to this equation was first to "sell" to its population the "need" for high technology and second to legitimize its need to conduct warfare against "Third World" countries. Putting these two factors together resulted in a partnership between the military and industrial community in the United States. Thus the wars conducted by the United States during the per
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