JOHN F. KENNEDY

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JOHN F. KENNEDY

• A Military Politician

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Biography John F. Kennedy

• Born Brookline, Massachusetts (1917)
• Graduated from Harvard University (1940)
• Enlisted in the United States Navy (1941)
• Fought in World War II
• Skipper on PT Boat 109

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Applying the Knowledge

• Cuban Missile Crisis
• Leadership
• Good Judgment
• Analyzed the motives of the Soviets
• The White House signed the nuclear test ban
  treaty

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Presidents With a Military Background

• Previous Wars (WW II)
• George Washington
• Rutherford B. Hayes
• Benjamin Harrison
• James Garfield
• Harry Truman

• World War II
• George Bush
• Lyndon B. Johnson
• Gerald Ford
• Richard Nixon
• Jimmy Carter
• John F. Kennedy

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Kennedy in the Navy

• PT Boat was sunk by Japanese Destroyer
• Kennedy rescued many of his crewmembers
• Awarded the Purple Heart Medal of Honor for his
  heroic acts in battle
• Back problems forced him to leave the Navy

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Population Military Presidents

• Kennedy became a part of an American Tradition
• America has turned to military heroes for more
  than a third of its presidents

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John F. Kennedy
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Conclusion

• Military Experience offers
• Great Leadership
• Special honor and duty
• Born in War
• America itself was born in war, and her first,
  and many say greatest, president was himself a
  general. (Kunhardt 5)