John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy, commonly referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. The Cuban Missile Crisis, The Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, the establishment of the Peace Corps, developments in the Space Race, the building of the Berlin Wall, the Trade Expansion Act to lower tariffs, and the Civil Rights Movement all took place...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPresident
Date of Birth29 May 1917
CountryUnited States of America
To those peoples in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required - not because the Communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
I was born an American, I live like an American, I will die an American.
So let us begin anew - remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof
The very word Secrecy is repugnant in a free and open society.
Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas.
We stand today on the edge of a new frontier - the frontier of the 1960's - a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils - a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats.
Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.
Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.
I'm an idealist without illusions.
My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.
I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.
I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.
America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.