Presidency of John F. Kennedy | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-04

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Presidency of John F. Kennedy


00:02:23 1 1960 election
00:05:31 2 Inauguration
00:07:04 3 Administration
00:09:56 4 Judicial appointments
00:11:19 5 Foreign affairs
00:11:28 5.1 The Cold War and flexible response
00:12:45 5.2 Cuba and the Soviet Union
00:12:55 5.2.1 Bay of Pigs Invasion
00:16:24 5.2.2 Vienna Summit and the Berlin Wall
00:19:27 5.2.3 Cuban Missile Crisis
00:25:36 5.2.4 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
00:27:42 5.3 Southeast Asia
00:27:51 5.3.1 Laos
00:29:07 5.3.2 Vietnam
00:32:35 5.4 Latin America
00:33:57 5.5 Middle East
00:34:05 5.5.1 Iraq
00:36:50 5.5.2 Israel
00:38:28 5.6 Third World countries
00:40:14 5.7 Multipolarity
00:41:20 5.8 List of international trips
00:41:34 6 Domestic affairs
00:41:43 6.1 New Frontier
00:45:48 6.1.1 Peace Corps
00:47:01 6.2 Economy
00:51:08 6.3 Civil rights
00:51:16 6.3.1 Early presidency
00:54:39 6.3.2 Abolition of the poll tax
00:56:13 6.3.3 1963
01:00:38 6.4 Space policy
01:03:09 6.5 Other issues
01:03:18 6.5.1 Status of women
01:04:43 6.5.2 Organized crime
01:06:01 6.5.3 Federal and military death penalty
01:06:57 6.5.4 Native American relations
01:07:40 6.5.5 Agriculture
01:08:19 7 Assassination
01:11:34 8 Historical reputation



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The presidency of John F. Kennedy began on January 20, 1961, when Kennedy was inaugurated as the 35th President of the United States, and ended on November 22, 1963, upon his assassination and death, a span of 1,036 days. A Democrat, he took office following the 1960 presidential election, in which he narrowly defeated Richard Nixon. He was succeeded by Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson.
Kennedy's time in office was marked by Cold War tensions with the Soviet Union and Cuba. In Cuba, a failed attempt was made in April 1961 at the Bay of Pigs to overthrow the government of Fidel Castro. In October 1962, the Kennedy administration learned that Soviet ballistic missiles had been deployed in Cuba; the resulting period of unease, termed the Cuban Missile Crisis, is seen by many historians as the closest the human race has ever come to nuclear war between nuclear-armed belligerents. Ultimately, the United States and the Soviet Union came to an agreement to end the crisis, and the Soviets withdrew the missiles. To contain Communist expansion in Asia, Kennedy increased the number of American military advisers in South Vietnam by a factor of 18 over his predecessor, Dwight D. Eisenhower; a further escalation of the American role in the Vietnam War would take place after Kennedy's death.
In domestic politics, Kennedy made bold proposals in his New Frontier agenda, but few were passed by Congress. He presided over a growing economy that experienced low inflation and a drop in unemployment rates. Kennedy took steps to support the Civil Rights Movement, helping to pass the Twenty-fourth Amendment, which abolished poll taxes. He also established the Peace Corps and intensified the Space Race. Two major pieces of Kennedy's domestic agenda, a civil rights bill and a tax cut, were enacted within a year of his death. 
Kennedy was assassinated in November 1963 while visiting Dallas, Texas. Though the Warren Commission concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in assassinating Kennedy, Kennedy's death gave rise to various conspiracy theories. Kennedy was the first Roman Catholic to serve as President of the United States, as well as the youngest individual ever to win a U.S. presidential election. Historians and political scientists tend to rank Kennedy as an above-average president.