Composure,

in Crisis
John F. Kennedy and
The Challenge of the Era

Cassidy Peebles, Noelle Weber, Alec Petrie

The Leadership Style of John F.

The Leadership Style of John F. Kennedy
Kennedy

Bearing
Under
Pressure

Excellen
t Orator

A True
Visionar
y

Bearing Under Pressure

The Leadership Style of John F. Kennedy
Brink of nuclear war
Time constraints
Unstable global conditions
and relations with the Soviet
Union
Able to make an informed
decision and keep his bearing

Excellent Orator
The Leadership Style of John F. Kennedy

Body Language
Authentic Passion
Conversation with the
audience

A Visionary
The Leadership Style of John F. Kennedy

Stood up for opinions

America, an example for
all nations
Never lost faith

The Leadership Style of John F. Kennedy

7 p.m. on Monday, October 22nd, 1962

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths
are--but it is the one most consistent with our character and courage as a
nation and our commitments around the world. The cost of freedom is
always high--and Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall
never choose, and that is the path of surrender or submission.
Our goal is not the victory of might, but the vindication of right- -not peace
at the expense of freedom, but both peace and freedom, here in this
hemisphere, and, we hope, around the world. God willing, that goal will be