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The speeches of Senator J.F.Kennedy - Presidential Campaign 1960

The Strategy of Peace

The Torch is passed...

The wicked wit of John F. Kennedy

Brought up in a large and wealth family which is now considered "the closest thing America has to an aristocracy", President John F. Kennedy's life and career were in every way golden. Equally golden was his tongue, for aside from the great speeches that helped to define him as a world leader, he possessed a ready wit honed both at home and in politics.
Using sayings and quips reported by those who knew him, as well as quotations of his own, this book presents hundreds of example of JFK's legendary wit.

Thirteen Days

During the thirteen days in October 1962 when the United States confronted the Soviet Union over its installation of missiles in Cuba, few people shared the behind-the-scenes story as it is told here by the late Senator Robert F.Kennedy. In this unique account, he describes each of the participants during the sometimes hour-to-hour negotiations, with particular attention to the actions and views of his brother, President John F.Kennedy.

Thirteen Days is a 2000 American historical political thriller film directed by Roger Donaldson. It dramatizes the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, seen from the perspective of the US political leadership. Kevin Costner stars as top White House assistant Kenneth P. O'Donnell, with Bruce Greenwood featured as President John F. Kennedy, Steven Culp as Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, and Dylan Baker as Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara.

While the film carries the same title as the 1969 book Thirteen Days by former Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, it is in fact based on the 1997 book, The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House During the Cuban Missile Crisis, by Ernest R. May and Philip D. Zelikow.

A selection from President Kennedy's public statements from his election through the 1961 adjournment of congress, setting forth the goals of his first legislative year.

Video of the first round of 1960 TV  Presidential debates between John F. Kennery (JFK) and Richard M. Nixon.

Ralph G. Martin's detailed biography, packed with previously undisclosed information, offers a deeply human version of what is considered the quintessential American saga: the story of a man who ignited hope in the hearts of millions.

A memory of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, with over twenty full colour reproductions, is a complete historical record of his visit to Ireland. All the highlights of his visit, the happy and intimate, as well as the formal and impressive, are fully described, with a wealth of background information also included.
Special thanks to my friend Trevor Babbs, who gave me this book!

This book presents a compelling account of JFK's final days. Written with remarkable detail and intimacy, this combination of history, narrative and personal stories chronicles the shared experience of shock and grief - from many different point of view - with vignettes and recollections from a wide cross-section of the population.

After all these years since 1960, several of the political kingpins and civic leaders from West Virginia's past, including Raymond Chafin, Claude Ellis and Dan Dahill, candidly reminisce about growing up in poverty stricken West Virginia, getting started in politics, and eventually working with the Kennedy family during the presidential primary.
Vote-buying, intimidation and free liquor. It's politics as it will never be again. It's the tale of "West Virginia Tough Boys".

This book, first published in 1962 by the John Day Company, explains in 90 photographs and brief text what the President of the United States does all day.
His day, any day, is filled with the pressure of meeting with his Cabinet, greeting high officials from foreign lands, preparing important bills for Congress, travelling at home and abroad, working at his desk, reporting to the people and sharing a moment of relaxation with his family.
Because this book is a tribute to the office of the Presidency and more particularly to John Fitzgerald Kennedy, this Memorial Edition of the complete hardcover book was reprinted by Dell Publishing Company in memory of the late President.

The reader will find this biography a fascinating study of the 35th President. Private conversations, letters, humorous and tragic glimpses of school and home life, paint a vivid portrait of John F.Kennedy... a young man destined to make history.

Beginning with his childhood struggle to overcome illness and match te achievements of a remarkable older brother, the book tells of his heroism as a World War II PT-Boat skipper and describes his personal growth as an individual. It gives a graphic account of his determined effort to inject a new spirit of idealism into the American people and to preserve the peace of the world.