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John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy. “The age of Camelot” ???????. Family Background. Weathy family/father Joseph Kennedy was an Irish immigrant Well educated Morally undisciplined Married Jackie Bouvier. 1960 Televised Debates. Richard Nixon—Republican candidate—Eisenhower’s VP

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John F. Kennedy

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  1. John F. Kennedy “The age of Camelot” ???????

  2. Family Background Weathy family/father Joseph Kennedy was an Irish immigrant Well educated Morally undisciplined Married Jackie Bouvier

  3. 1960 Televised Debates Richard Nixon—Republican candidate—Eisenhower’s VP John F. Kennedy—Democratic Candidate—(Democrats expected Lyndon B. Johnson to be the candidate) Most experts believe Kennedy’s appearance made the difference in a very close ract

  4. New Frontier “ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country” Attempted to grow economy with “supply side economics” Ask for tax cuts Wanted to stimulate the economy with “deficient spending” blackmailed steel industry into reducing prices by threatening to have military buy steel from foreign countries

  5. New Frontier Ask for tax cuts Increase spending on military and space program Ask for Dept of Urban Affairs/Cabinet position Ask for increase in minimum wage Health insurance for elderly Federal aid for education

  6. Failures No tax cut No federal help for schools No Dept of Urban Affairs No heath care for the elderly Made enemy of steel industry

  7. Successes Housing Act—money to clean up slums Raised minimum wage Increase defense spending Space program

  8. Foreign Policy “Flexible Response”—build up of conventional weapons Bay of Pigs (fiasco) Berlin crisis (led to Berlin Wall) Cuban Missile Crisis

  9. Bay of Pigs Planned by Eisenhower administration Kennedy wanted to do it to mute accusations that Democrats were soft on Communisim Kennedy nixed plan to send air support if necessary Cubans did not join with the CIA supported rebels and more than 200 CIA agents were killed Hurt foreign policy pretige/Caused Soviets to believe they could push U.S. around

  10. Berlin Crisis--1961 Khrushchev began to demand all of Berlin be under East German control Kennedy held firm and told Americans to prepare for war. Khrushchev gave in and began building Berlin Wall Kennedy’s prestige went up in the eyes of American people

  11. Cuban Missile Crisis Soviet Union began putting nuclear missile sites in Cuba Some advisors insisted on attacking immediately One again Americans told to prepare for war U.S. “quarantine” of Cuba to stop Soviet delivery of more missiles U.S. demanded removal of all missiles from Cuba Peak of the Cold War Stand-off for 11 days

  12. Cuban Missile crisis Khruschev agreed to remove missiles if we would not invade Cuba We agreed Khruschev added demand for us to remove missiles we had in Turkey We agreed, as long as it was top secret (Khruschev did not know Pentagon had already recommended removal of Turkey missiles)

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