Today we discussed having another work day and our overall project and what we will be graded on. Then we did blog discussion on John F. Kennedy.
JFK-Lyndon B. Johnson was his Vice President>> they did not get along too well.
-Nixon vs. Kennedy election was very very close!
-1960 election had one of the first televised debate
-Nixon had 5 o'clock shadows. tried to hide but the lights melted his make-up
-JFK's brother was to be the next kennedy president. his oldest brother was to be the president, he died in WW2 and his next brother joseph was to but his career got ruined with the apleasment policy in saying he "supported hitler". Therefore John was next. He was not really president material, but his father shaped him into a good president.
-He is the 35th president, served in WW2
- Family was very very wealthy!
-He was groomed to be a good president by his father
-He was a partyier. and loved pretty woman
-Married Jaqueline Lee Bouvier
- Youngest elected president and second youngest president outside of Teddy Rooslevelt
-He was killed in 1963, by lee Harvey Oswold.
-He became a hero by saving people from a ship hit, He swam people to the shore
-He made the peace corps
-Moon shot pledge
-People loved Kennedy. people loved him!
-JFK went to Berlin to reassure that we will always be there for Berlin
-Started sending helicopters, military advisors and undeclared US special forces to Vietnam.
-Nuclear Test Ban Treaty was signed in 1963
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-Promised federal funding for:
1. Education
2. Medical care for the elderly
4. Economic aid to rural regions
5. Givernment intervention to halt the recession
6. End racial discrimination
-November 22,1963, JFK was assassinated
-He was in a parade
-Oswold was murdered before his court apearrance.
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