Websites : The White House: John F. Kennedy, John F. Kennedy Library
John F. Kennedy (1917β63) served as 35th president of the United States (1961β63). He faced a number of foreign crises, especially in Cuba and Berlin, but managed to secure such achievements as the Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty and the Alliance for Progress. Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a motorcade in Dallas.
John F. Kennedy is the author of Why England Slept; Profiles in Courage: Decisive Moments in the Lives of Celebrated Americans; The Strategy of Peace; Executive Orders of John F. Kennedy; The Public Papers of John F. Kennedy and other Presidents; and Kennedy-Khrushchev Exchanges, among others.
Photograph: John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston
In June 1938, Future British Prime Minister Winston Churchill published a book entitled "Arms and the Covenant". It was then published in the US in September 1938 as "While England Slept; a Survey of World Affairs, 1932-1938". It highlighted the United Kingdom's lack of military preparation.
At that time the war was looming but had not started yet. The majority in England wanted to stay out of the war and to rely in England's natural barriers. However, the views of Churchill ultimately...
Written in 1955 by the then junior senator from the state of Massachusetts, John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage served as a clarion call to every American. The inspiring true accounts of eight unsung heroic acts by American patriots at different junctures in our nation's history, Kennedy's book became required reading, an instant classic, and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Now, a half-century later, it remains a moving, powerful, and relevant testament to the indomitable national spirit...
As World War II was ending and the Cold War was just beginning, a young naval hero decommissioned before war's end because of his crippling injuries, traveled through a devastated Europe. During the trip, John F. Kennedy kept a diary, never before published. As...
