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What were the feelings of what it was like when President Obama was declared the winner.

What do you think your children will think about President Obama?

What makes a President Great?

The Presidency ofJohn F. Kennedy

Presented by:

Mr. Gil

1960 Election

1960 Election

JFK, Democrat• Senator from

Massachusetts• Promised to get

America moving again• Catholic

• Concerned with the arrest of MLK in Georgia

Nixon, Republican• Served as VP under

Eisenhower• Promised to continue

peace and prosperity• Thought JFK was too

young and inexperience• Did not want to get

involved in the movement

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1960 Debate• September 26th, 1960 was the first televised

presidential debate• Vice President Nixon was sick. He also

refused to wear T.V. make up• JFK appeared to be healthy, tanned, and

confident• 80 million people watched the debate and

thought JFK won- ratings improved• Those who heard the debate on the radio

thought Nixon won• 3 more T.V. debates occurred, less audience

1960 Election Results

Electoral VotesBlue 303 Red 219

JFK Popular Vote Nixon34,220,984 34,108,15749.7% 49.6%

Difference of 112,827 votes

Inaugural Speech

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Peace Corps

Peace Corps• One of JFK’s first orders• Created to send young

Americans to 3rd world countries to promote World Peace and promote America

• Education, Farming, Health Care, Construction

• www.peacecorps.gov• 1-800-424-8580 ext. 1470 or

202-692-1470

Space Race

• April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first person to enter space

“No nation which expects to be the leader of other nations can expect to stay behind in this race for space. We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.”

-JFK September 1962

Americans Catch Up

• On May 5th, 1961, aboard Freedom 7, Alan Shepard became the first American in space

• On February 20th, 1962, aboard Friendship 7, John Glenn become the first American to orbit the earth

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JFK Vs Congress

Economic Stimulus

• Economic recession

• “Get America moving again”

• Tax cut = more money in pocket

• Conservatives did not agree with JFK

- feared the National Debt would increase

E.E.O.C. Begins

• Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

• JFK established a committee that would later become the E.E.O.C.

• Ensured all races had access to government jobs

• Investigates complaints of all discrimination

Civil Rights• Wanted to end all

racial discrimination• The televised

violence against peaceful protesters in Birmingham sparked JFK to address the nation

• JFK proposed a broad Civil Rights bill to Congress

• Conservatives blocked the proposal

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Cold War Continues

Bay of Pigs - April 17, 1961

• Fidel Castro comes into power in 1959

• The US accused Castro of being a Communist

• Castro builds ties with Russia• Castro’s government takes all• JFK approves invasion• Cubans don’t join• Cuba Wins• Latin America criticized JFK

Cuban Missile CrisisOctober 1962

• The US feared Soviet Communism spreading• Cuba felt that the US would invade• Cuba received missiles from the Soviets• The US discovers the missile launching sites

• JFK created the Executive Committee for National Security (ExCom)

• Bomb or blockade • JFK demanded the Soviets

remove all missiles• Soviet ships continue to

head toward Cuba• Heading toward WW III• Nikita Khrushchev agreed

to remove missiles if the US promised to never invade Cuba

Berlin Wall• After WW II, Germany was

divided by 4 zones along with Berlin

• Western Germany became a capitalist country, improving their living standard

• 25,000 people a day would leave Soviet-ruled Germany

• Khrushchev warned JFK that he would not allow the flow to continue

• JFK was willing to defend West Berlin

• Aug 13, 1961, Soviets begin to build wall

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Assassination

JFK in Texas

• November 22, 1963• Campaigning for

reelection• Visits with TX Governor-

John Connally• Rides in a motorcade

through downtown Dallas

National Tragedy

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• President Kennedy was shot twice by Lee Harvey Oswald

• Oswald was arrested but denied he killed JFK

• 2 days later, Oswald was killed by Jack Ruby

LBJ Sworn In

• 2 hours after JFK was killed, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as President

• Created the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of JFK

Was JFK A Great President?

• Good • Not So Good