Why Is John F Kennedy Successful

Additionally, it was John F Kennedy 's greatest success. He used a variety of tactics, which in the long run, ended the crisis without war breaking out. Pious (2001) said that “[he] coolly and exactly measured the level of force necessary to deal with the level of threat. Defining a clear and limited objective, he moved with mathematical precision to accomplish it, and by his own composure, clarity, and control, he held the country behind him” (82). With a good standing, the President was able to defuse the situation without actually using force that could have had a terrible domino effect. Kennedy’s choice to privately take matters into his own hands gave him the upper hand in speaking about the situation. If he had an idea he could go through it without it backfiring with the public. With this said …show more content…
It was Kennedy’s finest hour” (84). Given all of these qualities that Kennedy had, no other president would have had the mind set and patience to get through a crisis this large. He definitely kept the cold war from becoming a hot war and turning into an all out nuclear war.
Finally, the most important reason it was the key defining event of the cold war is it was on the brink of going from a cold war to a hot war. The minute the U-2 plane flew over and got photographs of nuclear facilities being built so close to the shores of the United States, war was on the border of nuclear war. According to Smith (2003), “[on] September 4, President Kennedy revealed the presence of ground-to-air antiaircraft missiles in Cuba and warned the Soviet Union not to install offensive weapons in Cuba,” in which the Soviets did not listen too (266). The Kennedy administration went into a state of crisis management that took them in many different directions. Most of the administration was torn between invading Cuba