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Kennedy Years Looming Crisis and Civil Rights Tensions
A detailed portrait of John F Kennedy as the 35th U S president, portraying his Cold War challenges with Khrushchev, Berlin, and Southeast Asia, along with domestic fights over civil rights, the steel dispute, tax cuts, and space race watch. It covers his youth, military heroism, family background, and rise to the presidency, with emphasis on his inaugural era and Catholic faith.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
United States
Russia
Nikita Khrushchev
West Berlin
Kennedy
Southeast Asia
Latin America
Fidel Castro
Khrushchev
Africa
Europe
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
de Gaulle
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Theodore Roosevelt
William McKinley
Alfred E. Smith
New York
Herbert Hoover
Hoover
Richard M. Nixon
Wenners
Nixon
Harry S. Truman
Woodrow Wilson
Patrick Joseph Kennedy
Boston
Massachusetts
John F
Honey Fitz) Fitzgerald
Congress
Senate
Henry Cabot Lodge
Lodge
Joseph P. Kennedy
Fortune Magazine
Securities and Exchange Commission
Maritime Commission
U. S
Court of St. James’s
Greater Houston
America
Young Kennedy
Blackett Strait
Solomon Islands
Sle
Evans
White House
Washington
Navy
Marine Corps
Joseph P. Jr
Kathleen
France
Marquess of Hartington
Coldsteam Guards
Lady Hartington
Harvard
Brockline
Mass
London School of Economics
Wall Street
John Kennedy
House of Representatives
Senator Lodge
Eisenhower
United Nations