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Austin Kinder

Eric Ratica

Comp Apps

12 October 2017

J.F.K

John Kennedy was the second richest president ever elected (The Washington

Post). Some people say he wasn’t a very successful president while others say different. It is a

known fact that J.F.K was a great leader due to many reasons he was able to lead our country

well until his final moments I believe everyone from that time loved him too. They would have

loved him a lot more than our current president now. As for me I believe he was a good president

as he is one of my favorites out of all the presidents.

John Kennedy had successes and failures like any other president. However, he was able

to achieve a lot of what he set out to do. Sometimes he got aggressive with people to get his

way. He had a internal fire that would sometimes burn out of control. He also did some childish

things. Oftentimes, he wrote to his father about things that would happen to him during his

presidency (The Washington Post). He also had some areas in life where he was irresponsible

and didn’t act like a president. He sometimes had affairs with prostitutes and a white house

intern. He sometimes risked being impeached or setting back his party and policy goals. As a

result, he almost made everyone he supposedly loved dearly look bad in the process (The

Washington Post). People also thought that he didn’t follow his own beliefs with foreign affairs

as he says he wants to make the world a peaceful place with the least amount of affairs with

foreign countries. (Settel 15)

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Before John Kennedy’s presidency he had a hard time making it through his

campaign. The Kennedys didn’t want to do nonstop speeches and things that usual

presidents do. They liked to do the more unusual things for presidents like quiet

weekends with his family. He liked to have more fun so the work was more tolerable and

made him have more patience with certain people. They preferred the company of people

who could take or give humor easily. Also they liked to be with people who had fame and

heroic achievements to make them look good in front of the public. When they did all

these unusual things they didn’t realize they would be changing the national usual for

presidents (Sorensen159). The reason he did all these crazy campaigning ideas was

because of the person he wanted to emulate and be like throughout his life. That person

was Bob Kennedy, he was the reason John acted like he did and the reason he

campaigned the way he did. He would quote him many times in speeches and through his

presidency. (Sorenson 161) (Kennedy)

A favorite of the Kennedys is the glorifying of the national news that was

happening. Like when the nuclear missiles happened the news glorified it making John

Kennedy and the Kennedys look bad and made some people feel RFK and John Kennedy

were bad presidents. Even with that happening RFK and John Kennedy both proved to be

good presidents through their great speech writings. They would make other believe they

were great presidents just by using those abilities (Sorenson 160). He may not have got

his brother abilities of being able to quote people easily through speeches you could see

where it was fixed and tell while listening to his speeches. (Sorenson 161)(The World

Post).
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People feel as if John Kennedy was a great president in some aspects. He had

some aspects of his presidency that he wasn’t as good at, but every president is like that.

Authors believed feel he was one of the better ones. He defiantly was better than some

presidents and many aspects. He showed it as many people in the worlds supported

everything he did full heartedly. They both were great at doing speeches and changing

critic’s minds to believe them and it worked well.

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Works Cited

“John F. Kennedy on the Economy and Taxes.” John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum,

www.jfklibrary.org/JFK/JFK-in-History/JFK-on-the-Economy-and-Taxes.aspx.

History.com Staff. “John F. Kennedy.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 2009,

www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/john-f-kennedy.

Kennedy, John F., and Trudy S. Settel. The Wisdom of JFK. Dutton, 1965.

Sorensen, Theodore C. The Kennedy Legacy. Macmillan U.a., 1993.

Eland, Ivan. “JFK's Real Legacy: Unintended Consequences of Needless Foreign Meddling.”The

Huffington Post, TheHuffingtonPost.com, 18 Nov. 2013, www.huffingtonpost.com/ivan-

eland/jfk-foreign-policy_b_4297658.html.