President Kennedy John Fitzgerald Kennedy became our 35th president in 1960. He was born in Masssachusetts and joined the Navy after the graduating from Hardvard. He started his political after getting out of the Navy in the mid fortys. He married Jacqueline Bouvier and had four children. He became out president shortly after and dealt with things like discrimination and nuclear threats to the U.S. Mr. Kennedy died at the age of 46.
Senator Joseph McCarthy, McCarthyism, and The Witch Hunt On November 14, 1908, Joseph McCarthy was born into a Roman Catholic family as the fifth of nine children in Appleton, Wisconsin. Although McCarthy dropped out of grade school at the age fourteen, he returned to diligently finish his studies in 1928, permitting him to attend Marquette University. Once accepted, he began his journey to become what many historians consider to be one of the least qualified, most corrupt politicians of his time. After receiving his law diploma at Marquette University, McCarthy dabbled in unsuccessful law practices, and indulged in gambling along the way for extra financing. Despite being a Democrat early in his political years, he quickly switched into the Republican Party after being overlooked as a candidate in the Democratic Party for district attorney.
John F. Kennedy John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on the 29th May 1917 in Brookline, Massachusetts to Joseph Patrick Kennedy and Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald. John F. Kennedy was often referred to as ‘JFK’ by his friends and family, and is commonly referred to as JFK today. JFK had three brothers and five sisters. In September 1941 whilst war was raging across the world, particularly in Europe, JFK was medically disqualified from the US Army for his chronic lower back problems, he then joined the Navy. Kennedy was working in the office of the secretary of the Navy when the attack on Pearl Harbour occurred.
On January 20, 2001 George is sworn in as our 43rd president. He had an ambitious home front agenda, but his priorities were shifted after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on our country. Bush was also dealing with tough debates including Social Security, immigration, healthcare, and the economy. Bush was also our leader when the worst natural disaster, Hurricane Katrina hit several southern states and Bush declared a state of emergency. One of his highlights was in 2002 when he opened the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.
As a result, President Kennedy in an exceptional message to Congress on February 28, 1963, declared “the democratic principle that no man should be deprived of employment commensurate with his abilities because of his race or creed or ancestry” (Dirksen Center, 2006). After over one year of debate in the U.S. Congress, on July 2, 1964, President Kennedy signed into the bill containing the Title VII provisions “defining unfair employment practices and providing for their prevention” (Vass, 1966). After the Act’s passage in 1964, subsequent amendments were added to further support the law such as the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA), the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978 (PDA), the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), and the Civil Rights Act of 1991 (Apollo Library, 2008). All of these amendments acknowledged additional areas of workplace discrimination and empowered the EEOC to provide remedies to workers who had experienced workplace discrimination based on age, pregnancy, or disability while the Civil Rights Act of 1991 included provisions for jury trials, compensatory and punitive damages (Bennett-Alexander and Hartman, 2007). For example, the ADEA had employers from refusing to hire or discharge on the bases of age while the PDA prohibits employers from “using pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions” as a reason for treating an employee differently than other employees.
It took about a year to get the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy appealed. The first time it was first submitted for appealed was December 2010. July 6, 2011 ruling from a federal appeals court barred further enforcement of the U.S. military's ban on openly gay service members. When President Obama was campaigning back in 2008 before he was elected he made many uplifting speeches that some compared to the speeches s of the famous civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King gave. One of the most influential promises President Barrack Obama made was getting the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell done away with once and for all by starting the bill of getting the policy appealed.
1. INTRODUCTION The topic of the speech I chose was by President Ronald Regan, when he spoke to the people of West Berlin to persuade them to pursue a better life and put an end to communism. President Regan was the 40th President of the United States and prior to that he was the governor of California. He implemented new economic policies know as “Reganomics”, which promoted reducing taxes to improve economic growth to reduce inflation. He survived an assassination attempt in his first term and won a second term in 1984.
Inside of the time capsule we found a Book. It was about John F. Kennedy, elected the 35th President of the United States in 1960 and who had picked Lyndon B. Johnson to be his Vice President. He wanted to prove to people that a “Roman Catholic can become President of the United States” which he accomplished. One of his most famous lines came from his inaugural address, “Ask not what your country can do for you –ask what you can do for your country.” Considering that in the years following this speech the United States became more of an everyone-is-out-for-themselves-and-to-hell-with-anyone-else philosophy, the JFK quote was wonderfully said. He was also responsible for starting the Peace Corps, which sent American Volunteers around the
John F. Kennedy in his inaugural speech addresses to America, USSR, and to the nation. He sets the tone for his presidency by being stern, inspiring, and engaging. He states that if we all come together we can end tyranny, poverty, disease and war itself. Kennedy establishes his vision for the United States. He begins his inaugural speech by using parallelism to emphasize the importance of his victory in the presidential race.
His thesis analyzed England’s inaction with Germany prior to the start of WW II. Jack was assigned to the South Pacific during WW II leading a PT Boat. He was awarded medals for leadership when he saved the crew after a crash with an enemy vessel. John F Kennedy was sworn into the presidency of the United States on Jan 20th 1961. He presided over a tumultuous time in American history.