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John F. Kennedy (archival): Well, I think it's the same issue which has been facing us for 10 years, and that's our relations with the Soviet Union and this question of war and peace and also the question of whether the uncommitted countries, the Middle East, Africa and Asia, will move to the Communist bloc or our own, and turn the balance of power for us or against us. John F. Kennedy (archival): This government will do whatever must be done to preserve order, to protect the lives of its citizens, and to uphold the law of the land. He had recurrent bouts of nausea and vomiting, continual bouts of high fever, and he was tired all the time. And his response was, "What the hell is this?". Two priests who were with President Kennedy say he is dead of bullet wounds. And a woman says to him, "Young man, it's too soon." Joe Kennedy expected his sons in particular to have a large effect on the world. Vaughn Meader, as John F. Kennedy (archival audio): Next, uh, next question. And that summer, up in Hyannis Port, they spent a lot of time together, and their friends commented on how close they seemed. Download PDF Tags 20th century Boston Female friendship Fund raisers (Persons) Massachusetts Social classes He had been an ardent supporter of Fidel Castro in the two years since the revolutionary had taken power in Cuba, just 90 miles from the U.S. mainland. A Note on The Use of Religions in The Phronocene - Jstor He didn't swallow his father's beliefs, and he said to him: You can talk about the need for compromise and for negotiations, but say over and over and over again that you hate Nazism, you hate fascism, you hate Hitler. He was a very easy candidate to sell, because he was good-looking, he had enormous charm, he had a great sense of humor. The question now is whether the generals can stay together and build a stable government. Richard Reeves, Writer: Kennedy was very confident of his own charm and whatnot and he expected he could seduce Khrushchev. So, I thought, he was a really, really thoughtful godparent and took it seriously. Kennedy understood he had to allow the Joint Chiefs to put the military on a hair trigger; the Air Force's Strategic Air Command went on high alert. Then we said, "No, no, that's fine." Sally Bedell-Smith, Writer: Jackie had never accompanied Jack on a domestic trip. But the Kennedys said, "Well, it's just the campaign." But he also meant to signal his sympathy to the growing number of African American voters -- North and South. "He didn't seem built for politics," admitted another. Nobody's told us yet. Michael Dobbs, Writer: Kennedy repeats his demand for Khrushchev to pull out, says that time is of the essence, if Khrushchev pulls his missiles out of Cuba, the U.S. will over the next few weeks pull its missiles out of Turkey. John F. Kennedy (archival): For the world is changing. And one of his favorite expressions was, "The military screws up everything.". Rich Remsberg And when they arrived in Paris, people went wild. Narrator: Jack was back at Harvard in the fall of 1938. Nevertheless, he perseveres and gets assigned to the South West Pacific, which is where the action is, fighting the Japanese. Robert Caro, Writer: She comes down and there's this huge map of the United States, where his father and he are plotting out, you know, his next trips. Of the 1,400 Cuban exiles who made the attack, 1,200 were killed or captured; many of the survivors were headed for firing squads. And we went to the big house for movies on the weekends. But how is McMahon going to swim? New and more terrible weapons are coming into use. Lyndon Johnson sat them out that year. Sally Bedell-Smith, Writer: He had what he called the "great man" theory of governing. John F. Kennedy (arhival): Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and the success of liberty. Narrator: Where Joe Jr. and Jack were concerned, friends remembered, "everything was a contest, whether a swim in the pool or a race to the breakfast table.". Allen Moore GLOUCESTER VACATION - RootsWeb Powerful and resourceful gangsters have banded together to make war from a whole human race Their challenge has now been flung at the United States of America. John F. Kennedy (archival): Well I'm glad to be back here and have a chance to take part in what's going on. Narrator: Joe Sr. refused to lower expectations for his second son, whatever his illness. So in New England the height of society is "The Lodges speak only to the Cabots and the Cabots speak only to God." In the South not speaking is considered trashy. Were we going to abandon our ally for the sake of a group of revolutionaries who might turn out to be Communists? The rest of Europe -- and America too -- was trying to figure out how to handle the German threat. Cato's Slippery Slope: How the Institute of Liberty Squashed Freedom of Narrator: The general election campaign of 1960 featured a new wrinkle: the first ever one-on-one debates between the major party candidates, broadcast live, across the nation. John Vachon, photographer, LOOK Magazine Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division Amazon.com: Customer reviews: The Gift of Love Newscaster (archival): There's Mrs. Kennedy and the crowd yells, and the President of the United States. David Brinkley, NBC News (archival): So it's 6am in New York and I don't know how long we'll be here. Hastings & Sons Publishing Co. Lynn, MA Recent assessments have revealed an administration long on promise and vigor, and somewhat lacking in tangible accomplishment. American casualties were on the rise. You hear Jack Kennedy, for a moment he's flustered. The Berlin Wall went up.". He monitored from afar the international summit in Munich, where British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain struck a deal to cede a small piece of Czechoslovakia to Germany in exchange for a promise from Hitler that he would stop there. "There is something about the first-born that sets him a little apart," Joe Sr. wrote, "You know what great things I saw in the future for him, and now it's all over.". But also as I saw the press, he also said that Mr. Salinger, his main job was to increase my standing in the Gallup polls. Donald J. Molner and Astrid Molner I mean, it raised the most basic questions about why are we doing this. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the nation's most respected civil rights leader, was arrested at a protest in Georgia. John Collins Bossidy. Jack was one step away. Joe Kennedy, Sr. (archival audio): When asked by the newspapermen this afternoon what I thought the chances were of appeasement succeeding, I told them I wasn't sure at all, but it was certainly worthwhile trying. Glenn Fukushima (Part one) And so what he decides to do is to have surgery, even though it is a danger to his life. He's won them in a breeze. Kennedy had an unshakable sense of his own skills. Edward R. Murrow, CBS News (archival): Good evening, Mrs. Kennedy. And they'd say, "How're you feeling? You can only do it by rhetoric. Robert Dallek, Historian: He's a playboy. The German Army had already occupied Paris, and appeared to be headed toward London, and Joe Kennedy was still advising President Roosevelt to keep the U.S. out of the fight. At this time we're indeed pleased to have with us in our studios, Mr. John F. Kennedy. Make sure you really talk to the generals before you invade Cuba." While maturation, as evidenced in the handling of the Cuban missile crisis, was apparent, the potential legacy of the New Frontier will forever be left to speculation. Robert Dallek, Historian: Bobby Kennedy cautioned his brother against letting this guy, who some said was a quack, letting him shoot him up with these kinds of painkillers. Narrator: Kennedy was finally beginning to understand how risky was his investment in Southeast Asia. The regular military doesn't really like this very much. A new dress?" I don't know how you did that. It looked good then and it still looks good to me. John Zecca, Research/Fact Checkers Thomas Hughes, Assistant to Robert Kennedy: Everybody went to bed night after night that last week, wondering what was going to happen the next day, and the Joint Chiefs were busy planning to strike the Soviet Union and Cuba, on a moment's notice. He wants to emphasize the new, the innovative. The President demurred. Communist influence has penetrated into Asia. His sister, after the victory in Wisconsin, says to him, "Well, what does it mean?" Directions. The President let that calculation -- his alone -- be his guide. Some of the staff thought he was having a heart attack. President.". And he did not want to lose control of Congress over, you know, a few black kids. This really was a CIA operation. Joseph P. Kennedy Foundation Jack Kennedy understood the obstacles to winning the presidency in 1960 and they were not small. Everything's gleaming: Air Force One, the great silver plane. Was absolutely great." Robert Dallek, Historian: What interested him was the question of the rising tensions with the Soviet Union, with the civil war in China, with what was happening in Greece and Turkey, and how Harry Truman was responding to the dangers flowing out of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. John F. Kennedy (archival): I do not think it altogether inappropriate to introduce myself to this audience. Alisa Placas Frutman For a full listing of Institute books on Books@JSTOR, click here. CIA Analyst (archival audio): The length, sir. Only the biggest of the biggest stars in Washington were onMeet the Press. But he was also a war hero; the Navy had made a public display of putting two medals on his bony chest. ", Time and again, when the hawks in that room, when the Joint Chiefs of Staff are insisting on invading, Kennedy pulls them back. And then Jackie went into labor prematurely in August, and had Patrick, who was suffering from hyaline membrane disease, which at that point was extremely serious. Kennedy appeared, like the white moderates Martin Luther King despaired of, "more devoted to 'order' than to justice.". Its military was still unable to stand up to the Communist-led North Vietnamese. And that's when presidents are at their greatest. Although some men who would be president, on a civil rights platform, answered none. John F. Kennedy (archival): Good evening my fellow citizens. A socialite? He'd be fine. "Fortunately," he wrote to his father, "they misjudged the durability of a Kennedy.". Sally Bedell-Smith, Writer: In a way, it was quite improvisational. Robert Dallek, Historian: He's seen as a kind of carpetbagger, an interloper. Wanted to be head of the CIA, was basically banking on success in Cuba carrying him there. Robert Caro, Writer: As Air Force One is heading toward Dallas, the weather clears. You never come out, the way you came in. And he felt that a leader with the requisite intelligence and persuasive powers, which included charm, I suppose, could have an impact. Narrator: Even in the raucous Kennedy clan -- even among his eight brothers and sisters -- Jack stood out. He was young, personable, attractive. And so Kennedy wants to underscore that. I COME from the city of Boston, The home of the bean and the cod, Where Cabots speak only to Lowells, And Lowells speak only to God. Michael Dobbs, Writer: It was the most disastrous foreign policy combination you could imagine, because it wasn't effective enough to actually overthrow Castro, and it demonstrated to the Russians that they had to do something very dramatic if they were going to save their Cuban ally. This item is part of a JSTOR Collection. A Boston Toast. Narrator: In the middle of the 1947 recess, a half-year into his first term, the young Congressman traveled to Britain to see his favorite sister Kathleen. This is the most unique town in America I've ever seen. So if you want to knock on doors, which is what politics was then, you had to climb over and over again, one building and then the next. He doesn't like going up to strangers or shaking hands. Evan Thomas, Writer: Jack initially defended his father's isolationism. And then they were kept in the hotel where the Secret Service was, so that the more mainstream doctors, wouldn't know that Kennedy was being pumped up. Robert Dallek, Historian: He's very bored by the day-to-day duties of a congressman, and he felt that he really didn't have significant power. ", David Nasaw, Historian: And as the days went on, he didn't feel better. And so, can he defeat this Republican? Narrator: Kennedy could see the chance for a peaceful solution was slipping away, so he chose the person he most trusted, brother Bobby, to take an urgent message to the Soviet Ambassador in Washington. And President Eisenhower starts quizzing him. Lee Statham, Archival Materials Courtesy of The campaign printed hundreds of thousands of pamphlets telling the story of Kennedy's kindness to the King family -- and Nixon's silence -- and shipped those pamphlets across the country, many by Greyhound bus, to be distributed at black churches. He hustled hard promoting his book -- and his big idea: Democracies had to be armed and ready to fight at all times, he said, the United States included. Phillip Harrington, photographer, LOOK Magazine Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division What Johnson didn't see, was how tough Jack Kennedy had to be just to get out of bed in the morning. The plan for an armed overthrow of Fidel Castro in Cuba was a holdover from the Eisenhower administration. Yes, he wanted to please Dad, but he might think about it for a second. How is this really skinny guy, who doesn't seem all that eager to clap hands and "press the flesh," as they say, how are we going to convert him into a winning candidate? We are grinding out missiles like sausages. And I can see his suntan all the way from here. Narrator: He knew on Election Day he was going to win, but as the results came in and his margin was narrower than he'd expected, Kennedy began to understand there would be a caveat: the party elders could argue that his victory in Wisconsin owed to his overwhelming margin in the state's large bloc of big-city Catholic voters -- as if his religion had been an unfair advantage. They really thought that war was near. In Florida, the Fifth Marine Expeditionary Force is readying for the invasion -- an invasion, war. Walter Cronkite, CBS News (archival): Senator Kennedy announced his choice is Senator Lyndon Baines Johnson of the state of Texas, the Senate majority leader, and his foremost rival for the presidential nomination Thomas Hughes, Aide to Sen. Hubert Humphery: There are many compartments in Jack's mind. David Brinkley, NBC News (archival): We're trying to settle here, so far without any success, or without enough success, the closest -- one of the closest elections in the history of the United States. He was always running late; left a trail of clothes and unfinished meals in his Georgetown townhouse for his valet to clean up. It got him out of his death-bed and bought him time. I want to compare what Robert Dallek, Historian: Nixon was someone who would sweat under the Klieg lights, and his makeup ran, and somebody later said, "He looked like a sinister chipmunk.". The Soviet Premier, Nikita Khrushchev, had taken Kennedy's measure at their first meeting a year earlier and he walked away believing he could get the better of the untested president. So everything's shining. Timothy Naftali, Historian: This was the first time an American president said the Soviets are like us. "The Cabots Speak Only to God" - Saved By Words He has to make a concession speech to Kefauver. Family not only served as an economic asset, but also as a means of moral restraint. And he turned to me and said, "Doesn't he know I'm President of the United States?" Fiercely. It was no accident, no accident at all, that when Jack Kennedy debates Nixon, Nixon, the champion debater, comes off worse because Nixon doesn't know how to look into a camera. Robert Dallek, Historian: He's only 43 years old. When a German U-boat sank a British passenger liner with more than 300 Americans on board, Ambassador Kennedy sent 22-year-old Jack to reassure the survivors that the Embassy would get them safely home. Khrushchev thought of him as young, weak, ineffective, and probably a pushover. He was willing to challenge people. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Niece: Oh it was very nasty. or implied. He reads the headlines. She studied State Department documents. So Jackie learned to strike hard bargains, like the time the President sent his press secretary, Pierre Salinger to ask her to attend a publicity event he couldn't make. Both men were talking tough, but they were both sending other, less martial signals, hopingthosesignals would get through the noise. Come on and vote for Kennedy, vote for Kennedy. With other college men, he'll try for Navy wing Narrator:The older Kennedy boys were doing more than talking war in 1941. Richard Reeves, Writer: People suddenly see this glamorous young couple from the upper class, who are almost impeccable in everything they do in public, and we want to be like them. That's the way it lasted through the night. He hangs out in the consulates. Kenneth Harper (archival): This is a strike-breaking, union-busting bill, in my opinion. Jullian Bond, Student Nonviolent Leadership Committee: The optimism that had enveloped the Kennedys, I think, from election day forward, began to diminish, and it kept going down and down and down and down and down. Poem: A Boston Toast by John Collins Bossidy - PoetryNook.Com So, he was rejected, as someone who would be what was called 4F. He was confident about his ability to come up with the right answer. Kennedy takes one of the straps, cuts it, puts one end in his teeth, tells McMahon to lay on his back, and then he tows him the three miles to this island. Narrator: After Pearl Harbor, America needed warriors like never before, but Kennedy remained at safe remove, in Naval Intelligence.

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