jackandjackie:

The President & First Lady pose by the Blue Room Christmas tree whilst attending the White House Christmas party honouring their staff ~ Dec. 1961

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jackandjackie:

On what was his 3rd birthday, John F. Kennedy Jnr salutes his father’s coffin ~ November 25, 1963

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hazor:

Kennedy Extra

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Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

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loveisallyouneed-:

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”

“So let us begin anew — remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof. Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.”

“If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can make the world safe for diversity. For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal.”

“A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.”

“Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce.”

“Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.”

John F. Kennedy “JFK” May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963

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jackandjackie:

Robert Francis Kennedy 

(November 20th, 1925 - June 6th, 1968)

Happy 86th Birthday Bobby

ourpresidents:

On November 8, 1960, John F. Kennedy was elected president in one of the closest elections in U.S. history.  In the popular vote, his margin over Republican candidate Richard Nixon was 118,550 out of a total of nearly 69 million votes cast.  His success in many urban and industrial states gave him a clear majority of 303 to 219 in the electoral vote.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy was the youngest man ever elected president, the only Catholic, and the first president born in the twentieth century.

JFK’s Campaign of 1960

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kennedylegacy:

An American scene:

Sixth-grade science classroom in a suburban elementary school, Oct. 23, 1962. At the front, the teacher — a tall, athletic young man — is weeping and telling his young charges, “We are so close to the end of the world.”

The 10- and 11-year-old students sit in stunned silence, at the messenger as well as the message. Few have seen a grown man cry, and certainly not a teacher.

But Oct. 23, 1962, was no ordinary day. The night before, President John F. Kennedy had revealed to the nation that the Soviet Union was placing nuclear missiles capable of destroying much of the United States in Cuba. And for a few days, the world rode the brink of extinction, saved only by the young president’s skillful handling of the crisis and the Soviets’ willingness to back down.

Little more than a year later, JFK was dead, but those students and the science teacher were alive — we were still alive .

- Jack Kennedy ‘Elusive Hero’ by Chris Matthews

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jackandjackie:

A Kennedy Family Photo inscribed “Halloween in Bronxville 1934 Ted”.

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ourpresidents:

Day 3 - Cuban Missile Crisis

President Kennedy meets with Soviet Ambassador Andrei Gromyko in the Oval Office.  The President does not reveal that he is now aware of the missile build-up.  Internally, the President and his advisers weigh two options: blockade or invasion.  October 18, 1962

16 Days in October

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What mattered to my father was not the scale of an accomplishment, but that we did our share to make the world better. That we learned we were part of something larger than ourselves.

Kara Kennedy

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Because of their age difference of 8,5 years the bond between young Jack and Bobby Kennedy was not very strong. Jack often saw Bobby as ‘annoying’, only to discover in the 1950’s that his younger brother was a very good and reliable campaign manager. From then on JFK and RFK relied on each other, especially in the White House years (1961-1963).

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jackandjackie:

Jacqueline Kennedy wearing a Pucci creation with her son, John Kennedy Jr., during the summer in Palm Beach, 1963.

Photographed by Mark Shaw.