![]() Much of this renown is due to Kennedy's genuine and considerable intelligence and to his admirable style, and to a charisma which has paradoxically become more apparent since his death than during his lifetime. ![]() ![]() Kennedy remains all authentic twentieth-century icon, probably the most famous American President m serve in the post-war period. John Kennedy's private life was a tabloid editor's dream and, had it become public knowledge at the time, would certainly have destroyed both his Administration and his public career at a stroke.Despite this objective paucity of achievement or even of purpose, John F. Arguably, he had no lasting legacy: the achievements of his successor, Lyndon Johnson, were in many ways a new departure, while the history of the Kennedy dynasty since 1963 has been a continuing tragedy. Apart from the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962-which Kennedy handled very well-even a well-informed person in the street would have some difficulty in naming a single historical event or achievement which can be credited to JFK. KENNEDY served as President of the United States for only two years and ten months, barely longer than the administration, now virtually forgotten, of Gerald Ford in the 1970s and less than the duration of the Korean War. Kennedy An Unfinished Life 1917-1963 Robert DallekAllen Lane, x + 838 pp ISBN 0 713997370 25 JOHN F. Kennedy: An Unfinished Life 1917-1963.īy William D. ![]()
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