John F Kennedy: (HIGH) Kennedy used the power appointed to him as president in an active way, he believed in an approach similar to the New Deal, only he brought creativity and imagination with his New Frontier idea for the government. He offered the American people his youth and his wit, he had new ideas he wanted to turn into government programs but decided to focus on issues that needed to be addressed first. One of those issues was the economy, it wasn’t expanding at a desirable rate. Business growth was down and unemployment was slowing increasing. Kennedy suggested a program to Congress that would increase wages, circulation of money through tax cuts and reduce unemployment. Concerns about government powers and money cause only a portion
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Aerial intelligence took pictures providing evidence. Kennedy demanded the removal of the nuclear missiles and sent the US Navy to quarantine the island, preventing further delivery of weapons. The US, Soviet Union, and Cuba were on the brink of war and the scare of a nuclear confrontation was possible. Krushchev finally agreed to America’s demands, in return the USN was called back and plans of invasion were aborted. After this debacle, in 1961, Kennedy proposed a program to assist Latin American countries. The Alliance for Progress would use money from the US and Latin American countries over a ten year span to boost economic development and fight poverty. Only $7.3 billion was approved for loans and the program was accepted by the Latin countries. The program wasn’t as successful as it was hoped to be, but it did succeed in public housing, public education, medical programs, and agrarian reform. During all this the conflict in Vietnam escalated. The trouble in Vietnam was seen as another case of communist …show more content…
He was raised on strict moral views that stuck with him through his whole life. He graduated from Princeton, law school at the University of Virginia, he didn’t enjoy practicing law so he strived for his Ph.D. in political science from Johns Hopkins University. He began teaching history and political science at Bryn Mawr, Wesleyan, and Princeton. He became president of Princeton in 1902 because of his 1885 publication of Congressional Government. He earned the reputation of a humane and efficient scholar and administrator. He wanted more and in 1910 he accepted the nomination for the governor of New Jersey. He led the state of New Jersey as the for-front of progressivism known as the “New Idea”. Its goals were to fight to prevent rapid-transit franchises from falling into the wrong hands, extract taxes from corporations to help pay for public schools and to create state commission with power to set commutation fares. One of the obstacles he ran into during his bid for presidency was the conservatives who initially sponsored him and he rejected earlier now turned against him. They tried to tarnish his name, their efforts were ineffective. Wilson’s idea of progressiveness differed from that of Roosevelt’s, Wilson believed in a limited use of government powers. His religious
Aerial intelligence took pictures providing evidence. Kennedy demanded the removal of the nuclear missiles and sent the US Navy to quarantine the island, preventing further delivery of weapons. The US, Soviet Union, and Cuba were on the brink of war and the scare of a nuclear confrontation was possible. Krushchev finally agreed to America’s demands, in return the USN was called back and plans of invasion were aborted. After this debacle, in 1961, Kennedy proposed a program to assist Latin American countries. The Alliance for Progress would use money from the US and Latin American countries over a ten year span to boost economic development and fight poverty. Only $7.3 billion was approved for loans and the program was accepted by the Latin countries. The program wasn’t as successful as it was hoped to be, but it did succeed in public housing, public education, medical programs, and agrarian reform. During all this the conflict in Vietnam escalated. The trouble in Vietnam was seen as another case of communist …show more content…
He was raised on strict moral views that stuck with him through his whole life. He graduated from Princeton, law school at the University of Virginia, he didn’t enjoy practicing law so he strived for his Ph.D. in political science from Johns Hopkins University. He began teaching history and political science at Bryn Mawr, Wesleyan, and Princeton. He became president of Princeton in 1902 because of his 1885 publication of Congressional Government. He earned the reputation of a humane and efficient scholar and administrator. He wanted more and in 1910 he accepted the nomination for the governor of New Jersey. He led the state of New Jersey as the for-front of progressivism known as the “New Idea”. Its goals were to fight to prevent rapid-transit franchises from falling into the wrong hands, extract taxes from corporations to help pay for public schools and to create state commission with power to set commutation fares. One of the obstacles he ran into during his bid for presidency was the conservatives who initially sponsored him and he rejected earlier now turned against him. They tried to tarnish his name, their efforts were ineffective. Wilson’s idea of progressiveness differed from that of Roosevelt’s, Wilson believed in a limited use of government powers. His religious