Kennedy was in truth a Handicapped Badass on par with (and possibly even surpassing) FDR, and a Determinator on the same scale, as he possibly suffered from an autoimmune disorder. Also similarly to FDR, Kennedy was at home talking with the press like almost no other president before or since the difference being that JFK's weekly press conferences and displays of immense charisma were all caught on film. He is the reason US Army special forces wear green berets. He had his successes as well, such as when he called for the formation of a small maritime unit that would be known as the Navy SEALs.
Roosevelt's bout with a paralytic illness, JFK was constantly struggling to hide and cope with his Addison's Disease and hypothyroidism, which almost jeopardized his 1960 election campaign. This failed invasion soured relations with Cuba (never that strong to begin with) and eventually led in 1962 to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Despite this, his short term was filled with crises and political upheaval, such as the CIA-directed 'Bay of Pigs' invasion of Communist Cuba, which went belly-up. Although a book by historian Arthur Schlesinger chronicles it as A Thousand Days.Ī youthful, glamorous and invigorating figure, JFK - along with his attractive wife Jacqueline Bouvier and their young family - was seen as introducing a new and liberating era to American political and cultural life after the stifling and stuffy days of The '50s, and his time in office was dubbed "Camelot" soon after his death. His presidency lasted for just over one thousand days. Kennedy was not only the youngest-elected president, at the age of 43 (the youngest to become president was Theodore Roosevelt, who was 42 at the time), but also the first Irish-American and the first Roman Catholic to hold the office (and the only one until Joe Biden, just over 57 years later), as well as the last US president (thus far) to die in office. The first president to be born in the 20th century and the 12th from the Democratic Party, he was known for his particularly inspirational turns-of-phrase in his speeches and overseeing an era of American history rife with social and political turmoil. Eisenhower and followed in office - after his assassination, which gave rise to a million Conspiracy Theories - by Lyndon Johnson. John Fitzgerald Kennedy ( November 22, 1963), often referred to by his initials of JFK * to his friends, family, and in any less-formal setting he was "Jack", as Lloyd Bentsen memorably reminded Dan Quayle in 1988), was the 35th President of the United States ( 1961≦3), succeeding Dwight D.
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