John F. Kennedy Quotes
So young and so wrong.
Kennedy was campaigning against Richard Nixon for the presidency. As his motorcade stopped and he stepped out of the car, he was confronted by a teen-age girl carrying a sign for Nixon. His comment to the press was:
John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963, 35th President of the United States (Democrat, MA), Remark, Mt. Prospect, IL, 1960
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We all have 20-20 hindsight, and sometimes well analyzed decisions turn out badly as the result of unfortunate circumstances.
He was a great football and track & field star. When he was in college, he had played baseball during the summer recess and was paid $2 a game, a common practice for college athletes who played baseball under an assumed name. Thorpe’s school had no athletes who had done that before, and his experience with formal rules was very limited. There was no one at the Carlyle Indian School who could advise him. Later, that technicality was used to strip him of his amateur titles and medals. Despite that, he was voted as the greatest athlete of the 20th century.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, often referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. Kennedy served at the height of the Cold War, and the majority of his work as president concerned relations with the Soviet Union and Cuba. A Democrat, Kennedy represented Massachusetts in both houses of the U.S. Congress prior to becoming president.
