The biography of John Kennedy

John Kennedy's biography is young years. John Kennedy was born on May 29 in Brooklin, Massachusetts. His family, having Irish roots, was very rich. The upbringing of his father, who demanded that he be the first in everything, from an early age, was instilled in John Kennedy to perseverance and the desire to achieve success in everything. Although Kennedy had a back from childhood, and later he suffered from Eddison's illness, he never noticed signs of manifestation of weakness.

In the year he graduated with honors Harvard University. Then, during the US entry into the war, he entered the service in the Navy, after which he was twice awarded for courage. In the post -war period, Kennedy was engaged in correspondent activities for some time, then he began to try his hand at politics. In the year, he was elected to the post of member of the House of Representatives from the Democratic Party, and he defeated the opponent with an advantage five times.

Subsequently, Kennedy was twice re -elected to this post. In the year, Kennedy ran for senators. Despite the advantages of the Republicans, Kennedy won. The noteworthy fact of Kennedy’s biography is that his first victory in the elections was partly a kind of “answer” by his grandfather of his rival Senator G. Lodge, who won his ancestor Kennedy in the Senate elections in the year. The distinguishing directions of the policy of Kennedy-Senator were support for a policy of regulating prices and housing fees, the development of state housing, as well as protecting the interests of trade union organizations.

As a senator Kennedy introduced a number of new bills. In the year, Kennedy published a work that significantly influenced his political biography and facilitated his path into great politics.

He wrote the biographical work of American politicians "Profiles of Courage", for which he was awarded the prestigious in the field of journalism by the Pulitzer Prize. This book brought him nationwide glory. As the author of such a grandiose labor, Kennedi entrusted the leadership of an important project: he was supposed to choose the five greatest senators of all time whose portraits intended to hang in the Senate Hall of receptions.

Kennedy was re -elected for the next period of the year. In the election, he received more than seventy percent of votes. In the year, at the National Convention of the Democratic Party, one of the presidential candidates E. Stevenson made an unusual proposal-he decided to organize an election of a man who would become his partner as a candidate for vice presidents. This provided Kennedy with an exit to the nationwide political arena.

But in these elections he could not resist a powerful opponent, who was already very popular and won in preliminary elections. John Kennedy's biography is mature years. Kennedy began serious preparations for the next presidential election. He did everything to attract public attention and gain popularity among the general public: published in the most famous newspapers and magazines of the country, became a member of the very advertised committee of McClelan, and virtuoso conducted a moderate bill on transformations in the field of labor relations.

So Kennedy quickly acquired serious authority outside his state and achieved victory in the elections with a slight advantage to thousands of votes. Thus, a grandiose event in Kennedy’s political biography happened: on January 20, he took the oath of the US president. His presidential program was called the program "New Frontiers". It included the creation of the world corps, an increase in the level of minimum wages, as well as powerful social transformations, such as liberalization of social insurance of citizens and assistance to the poor areas of the country and the payment of unemployment benefits.

The program was approved by Congress, but a number of other proposals of the president in the social sphere were rejected. Kennedy also failed in attempts to promote his legislative projects, although he was very popular. This was mainly due to the excellent general situation in the country, which, according to the majority, did not require any changes.

Kennedy’s political program regarding internal issues of US development was characterized mainly by the acceleration of the country's economic growth rate. He adopted a number of bills to reduce tax payments, advocated the termination of racial discrimination against the Negro population of the country. Kennedy's foreign policy was flexible: understanding the need to adapt international political actions to the USA to the changed balance of forces in the international arena, he put forward a program of new lines.

The presidential administration regarding international issues followed the course of the so -called "flexible response."Thus, Kennedy acted in two directions at once: he strengthened and increased the military power of the United States, using economic and ideological principles to maintain the capitalist system and contain communism, and at the same time advocated diplomatic methods for finding solutions in controversial issues with other states, while showing a more realistic approach to relations with the USSR.

At the end of the year, Kennedy began preparations for the upcoming elections, which required constant trips around the country with campaigning. In one of these trips in November of that year, he was mortally wounded. In the city of Dallas, when the president was driving in a car, they shot him twice. Lee Harvey Oswald, who was soon killed, was considered a suspect in the murder.

There was no undeniable evidence of Oswald’s guilt in Kennedy’s murder, and the facts contained in versions of the subsequent investigation are still contradictory. One of the reasons for the murder of Kennedy is called aggression against the President’s political course, in particular, the signing by the US government in August of the year of the Moscow Treaty to Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons tests.

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