America's Royalty has 3 ratings and 0 reviews. A comprehensive work about the first families' children, this is the only book available that treats these.
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The book is a good read, but it also serves an historical function. Aside from the fact that the book is informative, reading about the lives of the children of America's chief executives is like peering into a moment of the American equivalent of royalty. Observing the exciting, painful, humdrum, and heartfelt experiences of both the children and the families may also serve to increase the reader's understanding of the real lives of these emulated families; that they too lead lives that are similar to every person's, except that they are in the historical spotlight.
After all, leaders such as Lincoln and Kennedy were forced to continue governing the affairs of state as their sons died. Sponsored Products are advertisements for products sold by merchants on Amazon. When you click on a Sponsored Product ad, you will be taken to an Amazon detail page where you can learn more about the product and purchase it. To learn more about Amazon Sponsored Products, click here.
This book is well written and informative, and is unique in that it describes in-depth the lives of the president's children. Itis recommended for all libraries. This represents a step forward in the knowledge about the offspring of the United States' presidents and helps to illustrate the fact that with the exception of James Buchanan the only presidents to never marry , the election of a new president represents not only an individual ascending to office but also a family beginning a new life.
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John F. Kennedy
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It still contains mistakes and is of poor research quality. Marine who had embraced Marxism and defected for a time to the…. His father, Joseph Patrick Kennedy , had acquired a multimillion-dollar fortune in banking, bootlegging, shipbuilding, and the film industry, and as a skilled player of the stock market. His mother, Rose, was the daughter of John F. They established trust funds for their children that guaranteed lifelong financial independence. He then expanded that thesis into a best-selling book, Why England Slept In the fall of Kennedy joined the U.
Navy and two years later was sent to the South Pacific. John Kennedy himself had barely escaped death in battle. Commanding a patrol torpedo PT boat, he was gravely injured when a Japanese destroyer sank it in the Solomon Islands.
Marooned far behind enemy lines, he led his men back to safety and was awarded the U. Navy and Marine Corps Medal for heroism. He also returned to active command at his own request. These events were later depicted in a Hollywood film, PT [], that contributed to the Kennedy mystique. However, the further injury to his back, which had bothered him since his teens, never really healed. Despite operations in , , and , he was in pain for much of the rest of his life.
He also suffered from Addison disease , though this affliction was publicly concealed. According to some reports, both Kennedy and the first lady became heavily dependent on these injections through weekly use. None of this prevented Kennedy from undertaking a strenuous life in politics. His family expected him to run for public office and to win. Kennedy did not disappoint his family; in fact, he never lost an election.
His first opportunity came in , when he ran for Congress. Although still physically weak from his war injuries, he campaigned aggressively, bypassing the Democratic organization in the Massachusetts 11th congressional district and depending instead upon his family, college friends, and fellow navy officers.
In the Democratic primary he received nearly double the vote of his nearest opponent; in the November election he overwhelmed the Republican candidate. He was only Kennedy served three terms in the House of Representatives —53 as a bread-and-butter liberal.
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He advocated better working conditions, more public housing , higher wages, lower prices, cheaper rents, and more Social Security for the aged. In foreign policy he was an early supporter of Cold War policies. His congressional district in Boston was a safe seat, but Kennedy was too ambitious to remain long in the House of Representatives. In he ran for the U. Senate against the popular incumbent, Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. Thousands of volunteers flocked to help, including his year-old brother Robert, who managed the campaign. That fall the Republican presidential candidate, General Dwight D.
Eisenhower , carried Massachusetts by , votes; but Kennedy defeated Lodge by 70, votes. As a senator, Kennedy quickly won a reputation for responsiveness to requests from constituents , except on certain occasions when the national interest was at stake. Lawrence Seaway, despite the fact that over a period of 20 years no Massachusetts senator or congressman had ever voted for it.
To the disappointment of liberal Democrats, Kennedy soft-pedaled the demagogic excesses of Senator Joseph R.
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McCarthy of Wisconsin , who in the early s conducted witch-hunting campaigns against government workers accused of being communists. He prepared a speech explaining why, but he was absent on the day of the vote. It was during this period that he worked on Profiles in Courage , an account of eight great American political leaders who had defied popular opinion in matters of conscience , which was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in Back in the Senate, Kennedy led a fight against a proposal to abolish the electoral college , crusaded for labour reform, and became increasingly committed to civil rights legislation.
As a member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations in the late s, he advocated extensive foreign aid to the emerging nations in Africa and Asia, and he surprised his colleagues by calling upon France to grant Algerian independence. During these years his political outlook was moving leftward. Overnight he had become one of the best-known political figures in the country. Already his campaign for the nomination had begun. He made his race for reelection to the Senate a test of his popularity in Massachusetts. His margin of victory was , votes—the largest ever in Massachusetts politics and the greatest of any senatorial candidate that year.
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A steady stream of speeches and periodical profiles followed, with photographs of him and his wife appearing on many a magazine cover. To transport him and his staff around the country, his father bought a passenger Convair aircraft. After having graduated from Harvard University and from the University of Virginia Law School , Bobby had embarked on a career as a Justice Department attorney and counsellor for congressional committees.
Ted likewise had graduated from Harvard and from Virginia Law School Both men were astute campaigners. In January John F. Kennedy formally announced his presidential candidacy. His chief rivals were the senators Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota and Lyndon B. Kennedy knocked Humphrey out of the campaign and dealt the religious taboo against Roman Catholics a blow by winning the primary in Protestant West Virginia.
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He tackled the Catholic issue again, by avowing his belief in the separation of church and state in a televised speech before a group of Protestant ministers in Houston , Texas. Nominated on the first ballot, he balanced the Democratic ticket by choosing Johnson as his running mate. Kennedy won the general election, narrowly defeating the Republican candidate, Vice President Richard M.
Nixon , by a margin of less than , out of some 70,, votes cast. Daley , mayor of Chicago. A major factor in the campaign was a unique series of four televised debates between the two men; an estimated 85— million Americans watched one or more of the debates. As president, Kennedy continued to exploit the new medium, sparkling in precedent-setting televised weekly press conferences. He was the youngest man and the first Roman Catholic ever elected to the presidency of the United States. His administration lasted 1, days. From the onset he was concerned with foreign affairs.
In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility—I welcome it.
And so, my fellow Americans: In the last year of the Eisenhower presidency, the Central Intelligence Agency CIA had equipped and trained a brigade of anticommunist Cuban exiles for an invasion of their homeland. The Joint Chiefs of Staff unanimously advised the new president that this force, once ashore, would spark a general uprising against the Cuban leader, Fidel Castro. But the Bay of Pigs invasion was a fiasco; every man on the beachhead was either killed or captured.
Privately he told his father that he would never again accept a Joint Chiefs recommendation without first challenging it. Khrushchev ordered a wall built between East and West Berlin and threatened to sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany. The president activated National Guard and reserve units, and Khrushchev backed down on his separate peace threat.