what factors helped John F. Kennedy become a strong predential candidate?
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Charisma, and the ghoulish visage of his opponent on television.
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I just did a search for "Kennedy Administration and the Middle East" and came up with the web site listed below.  It looks very interesting.  Good Luck.
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The %100 support JFK got from dead voters in Chicago. Sad part is I'm not kidding. It was a race probably as close as the Bush Gore race and Chicago dead turned out in great numbers to vote.
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In my opinion the Democrats of JFK's day were more moderate and the center has shifted over the years. I could go on all day  about this but just some highlights of my view on this.  In the 50s and 60s democrats like JFK went to church and believed more in family values. Today they have shifted more to freedom choice to do what you want and Republicans have moved out of their elitist position and more toward the center. Far right and far left have become more radical and opposed. Immigrants in those day came to America in search of democracy and generally gravitated to the Democratic party because they believed that other parties did not stand for democracy. Although that's not true. Today those that have educated themselves, I believe gravitate to the values of the republican party. Thus the Republicans have become the new democrats. JFK was a moderate, strong on defense issues and family values despite his indiscretions. As Attorney General Robert Kennedy went after crime aggressively. Republicans were more about money and power. Things have changed.
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At the time of President Kennedy's assasination, there was speculation that the government itself was involved.  There also was speculation that Lyndon Johnson may have had something to do with it, or the Mafia, or Fidel Castro, or the unions, and the list goes on.  Evidently Mr. Kennedy stepped on a few toes along the way, so it's hard to know if there was a conspiracy.  The Warren Commission said there was no conspiracy, but then, just how deeply did they really dig to get to the truth?  We may never know the answer to your question!
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quote from John Lennon.  "yes JFK was a good president, but he died before he could let anyone down."  i liked that quote.
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Crystalheart287, I am including an incomplete brief writing that may afford you some ideas for a best topic and composition. In it are found several topics of interest such as migration in search of a better life, a distinguished person, and of course President Kennedy. Think straight,smooth,make notes for research and consolidate into a report. Jose\n\nEndeavors in overcoming oppression were indeed early struggles, which were part of our social American evolution.  Although Robert Frost (1874-1963) is not known as a political poet or essayist, his poetry and lifestyle in my opinion did serve as prime example to the freedoms, which America afforded its citizenry of his day, in contrast to life in America in the 17th century.  Frost being born a Californian moved with his proper nuclear family to New England.  Here in Lawrence, Massachusetts, Frost graduated from high school in 1891, married and continued his education.  Twenty years later after unsatisfying intellectual and agricultural ventures, he moved with his new nuclear proper family to England.  In this atmosphere and in reminisce of his life and friends in America, he soon was devotedly engaged in writing poetry.  His desire to roam far from home became evident of a man in search of his true identity, his destiny, and afforded him insight into colonial American life of which he was extremely proud of and that instilled in Frost the ‘want of write’.  It was by this personal venture that he gained the ability to express his poetry through colloquial rhythms, simplicity of image and folksy diction.  His verses were to contribute a rich footing for American social development and can be sensed in the following passage to his poem ‘The Gift Outright’;\nThe land was ours before we were the lands,\nShe was our land more than a hundred years,\nBefore we were her people.\nThis patriotic presentation is so moving to so many Americans that Frost personally recited it at John Fitzgerald Kennedy’s Presidential inauguration in 1961. An honorable achievement by a political conservative, a beautiful social achievement through literature.
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Yes, charisma. And personality. And something more. They are highly talented at what they do. They have that special something, that "it" factor, that lets them share their talents with others and have their emotions come through in their performance. A special something that sparks the interest of the public, something that makes us sit up and take notice. It's what a politician hopes he/she has, in order to get elected. And it's not just any one thing, either. It's a combination of several things, like charisma, personality, wit, wisdom, appearance, talent, and the like that seems to have come together like a mathematical equation that works. These are stars of this world. These are the people like to follow. It is, I think, best thought of simply as "it".
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President Kennedy upset some VERY powerful people in the USA. Don't fall into the trap of thinking that the President is the most powerful person in the country.\n\nLee Harvey Oswald was a pawn working for someone else and had to be killed.
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George Washington.  Got to love those wooden teeth.  \n\n\nCome on what kind of question is this.  The only half way decent not old president was JFK
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I don't know if this helps but this is about Abraham Linconln and John F. Kennedy.\n\nØ Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846. \nØ John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946. \n\nØ Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860. \nØ John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960. \nØ Both were particularly concerned with civil rights. \n\nØ Both wives lost a child while living in the White House. \n\nØ Both Presidents were shot on a Friday. \n\nØ Both Presidents were shot in the head. \n\nNow it gets really weird. \n\nØ Lincoln's secretary was named Kennedy. \nØ Kennedy's Secretary was named Lincoln. \n\nØ Both were assassinated by Southerners. \n\nØ Both were succeeded by Southerners named Johnson. \n\nØ Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808. \nØ Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908. \n\nØ John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln, was born in 1839. \nØ Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy, was born in 1939. \n\nØ Both assassins were known by their three names. \n\nØ Both names are composed of fifteen letters. \n\nNow hang on to your seat. \n\nØ Lincoln was shot at the theater named "Ford." \nØ Kennedy was shot in a car called "Lincoln" made by "Ford." \n\nØ Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trials. \n\nAnd here's the "kicker" \n\nØ A week before Lincoln was shot, he was in Monroe , Maryland (U.S) \nØ A week before Kennedy was shot, he was with Marilyn Monroe. \n\nØ And Lincoln was shot in a theatre and the assassin ran to a warehouse. \nØ Kennedy was shot from a warehouse and the assassin ran to the theatre.
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On February 10, 1961, photographer George Tames was allowed to spend the entire working day with the recently inaugurated Kennedy, and the best of the resulting pictures became a visual essay in the New York Times Magazine, titled "A Day in the Life of John F. Kennedy." Among the images included was this picture taken in the White House Oval Office a little after 5:00 p.m., showing Kennedy poring over a newspaper. The standing position was typical of Kennedy who frequently felt the need to rise from his chair to ease his chronic back pain.\n\nKennedy had a shrewd sense for which imagery worked best with the public. Thus, when Tames let him preview the picture essay's final layout, he recognized immediately that this faceless, shadowed portrait with its sense of quiet isolation conveyed the gravity of the presidency in a way that few other pictures could. Upon spotting it in its relatively unfeatured position, he declared that this was the image that, above all others, should have been carried on the magazine's cover.
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The Kennedys are a wealthy family from Massachusetts, the most famous being John F. Kennedy. He was the president of the USA and was assassinated. Robert Kennedy ran for president and was also assassinated. Their brother Ted Kennedy is a senator for the state of Massachusetts.
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jfk did not get a lot done on this issue, though he was a proponent of civil rights (some say that led to his assasination) but there was little legislation passed during his era...johnson, his vp did most of that (as unpopular as he was) after jfk's assasination....though there were milestones during kennedy's tenure...go to the wikepedia site, and look up civil rights
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I suggest you begin with two searches on Wikipedia. One is 'space race' and the other is 'John F Kennedy'.
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Do your own homework.  Plus the 30s is a long time and he got elected president twice during that time.  Every president's popularity rises and drops over time.  \n\nBut of course there was Roosevelt's unfortunate position on eugenic sterilization.
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Lincoln.  Besides his impressive contributions to the art, language, and style of politics, no man who has ever occupied the oval office faced as much difficulties while in office.  Even FDR, with the Great Depression and WWII, did not have to face the devastation of the Civil War that Lincoln faced on a daily basis.  The nation was torn apart.  Families were split and government was on the brink of collapse on more than one occasion.  With what can only be described as supreme will, Lincoln kept the country from ruin.  He rose up from lowly beginnings to embody the spirit of the nation.