Originally Posted by Hollander
JFK would have been one of the best presidents IMO.

Kennedy is known to the general public as the president who announced the American plans to put a man on the moon in order to win the space race with the Soviet Union . In addition, his prematurely terminated term was marked by the Cuban Missile Crisis and increasingly strong American involvement in the Vietnam War and his attempt to stop the arms race. However, Kennedy was a more pragmatic than ideologically inspired leader.


In 1963, Kennedy secured an agreement with Britain and the Soviet Union to limit the testing of nuclear weapons in space, underwater, and in the earth's atmosphere, seeking to reduce Cold War tensions.

He also founded the Peace Corps.

Although the 1964 Civil Rights act was signed into law by LBJ,Kennedy is credited for laying much of the ground work.