The_Graceful_President

The Graceful President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, the second of nine children to Joseph P. and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy. The family developed strong Irish Catholic democratic roots in America’s political system. He was schooled in the religious teachings of the Roman Catholic church and the political precepts of the Democratic Party. Both of his grandfathers, Patrick J. Kennedy and John F. (Honey Fitz) Fitzgerald were elected to public office. His father J. P. Kennedy was also involved in politics and served the post of ambassador to Great Britain John served as his secretary, drawing on that experience to write his senior thesis ,he graduated from Harvard University in 1940 on Great Britain's military unpreparedness. Then he expanded that thesis into a best-selling book, Why England Slept published in1940. In the fall of 1941 Kennedy joined the U.S. Navy. In 1943, he became a war hero when he helped save the lives of the men on the boat he commanded, PT 109, when they were torpedoed by a Japanese destroyer. With his back injured, he managed to swim with his surviving men to an island three miles away and they were rescued five days later ,this kennedy, kennedy's, john, won, war, soviet, served, office, nuclear, later, great, fitzgerald, first, elected, democratic, days, corps, congress, catholic, wage, three, thesis, space, social, security, second, roman, ran, public, programs, popular, political, policies, peace, navy