 The 35th President of the United States,
serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. He is the youngest man and
the only practicing Roman Catholic to be elected President. Events during his
administration include the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the
building of the Berlin Wall, the Space Race, the American Civil Rights Movement
and early events of the Vietnam War. His Inaugural Address offered the
memorable injunction: "Ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you
can do for your country." As President, he set out to redeem his campaign pledge
to get America moving again. His economic programs launched the country on its
longest sustained expansion since World War II; until his death. Responding to ever more urgent demands, he
took vigorous action in the cause of equal rights, calling for new civil rights
legislation. He wished America to resume its old mission as the first nation
dedicated to the revolution of human rights. With the Alliance for Progress and
the Peace Corps, he brought American idealism to the aid of developing nations.
To date he is also the only President to have won a Pulitzer Prize for his book
Profiles in Courage. Robert Kennedy wrote the foreword " It is not just stories
of the past but a book of hope and confidence for the future. What happens to
the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us."
Another vica of peace one of his last quotes "Those who make peaceful revolution
impossible will make violent revolution inevitable"
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