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What was john f Kennedy's biggest challenge as president while he was in office?
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∙ 8y ago
One of the biggest challenges he faced was the fact he was Catholic. The country never had had a Catholic president and there was a great deal of discussion about it. He also wasn't in the Senate very long and, like Obama, there was discussion about experience and how young he was. I think the biggest factor in his winning over Nixon was the first TV debate. Nixon looked like he was dead and Kennedy was young vibrant and real. When he won he still faced some of the same issues, but he headed into fray. He appointed his brother Bobby attorney general and also brought in more of his political machine. He faced the fact the Russians were starting to spread out with missiles closer to the US, he had Castro to deal with, he and Bobby went after the mob and to get the unions out of control under the mob. He wanted to pass civil rights legislation and the Civil Rights Movement was just starting. Viet Nam was in the works and he would have to decide how to deal with that. Put in more troops? or pull out? ( very similar to Obama in the East) Berlin was still divided by the wall and the cold war was starting to "heat up". JFK had a full plate.
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