John F. Kennedy Quotes
Well, any time they would like to take over this job, they can have it.
Responding to a columnist's criticism of a Defense Department project, JFK wrote across the bottom of the article:
John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963, 35th President of the United States (Democrat), Quoted by Bishop, A Day in the Life of President Kennedy, Random House, 1964
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During the Bay of Pigs crisis the President was consulting congressional leaders including Senator Barry Goldwater, who had ambitions for the Presidency:
Johnson had no real role as Vice President in the JFK administration. He had no power as he understood it also. He urged his staff to hook up with another politician who had a brighter future. Then JFK was assassinated and Johnson was suddenly the post powerful person in the world.
He was referring to the new and more responsibilities he had as King when his father dies then he had held as Crown Prince before.
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.