Rating JFK essays

Rating JFK essays In 1960 John F. Kennedy was elected president, his good looks, his familys history, and his charismatic personality won him the election. He was the youngest ever elected to office, and his lack of experience showed when dealing with foreign affairs. Throughout his campaign JFK had to deal with many obstacles, like the bad reputation of his father and him being the ambassador to Great Britain (1937to 1940), his religion (Roman Catholic), his youth, and even him being a Democrat. Democrats were known for being soft on communism, because of Harry Trumans lack of discipline towards the Soviets. Since Truman was a democrat, this was one of the negatives that almost lost the election for JFK. His lack of experience was a major problem for putting faith in JFK and trusting his decisions. The Cuban missile crisis was a huge problem during JFKs time as president that he helped solve. JFK encountered many obstacles while he was trying to free the US from having missiles pointed at them. US found out that the Soviets were placing nuclear missiles in Cuba that were pointing at the US. The missiles were only ninety miles away, aiming for the east coast of America. JFK was split on what to do, the military was pulling him to invade Cuba to take the missiles away and take out Castro, but that would only result in retaliation from the Soviets because it would seem like an attack against them. Military leaders wanted to take extreme action against the Soviets because of what happened in 1960, the Bay of Pigs. The CIA trained hundreds of Cuban exiles to invade Cuba and take out Castro. But nothing went as hoped for, the air strike didnt hurt the Cuban air force and the CIA lied and said that the air strike did do damage. Kennedy felt as if he was responsible for the Bay of Pigs because he gave permission. Although JFK didnt know about the plan only until nine days afte ...