enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. John F. Kennedy - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy

    The Kennedy brothers: Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, Senator Ted Kennedy, and President John F. Kennedy in 1963. The Kennedy family is one of the most established political families in the United States, having produced a president, three senators, three ambassadors, and multiple other representatives and politicians.

  3. Flexible response - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible_response

    Flexible response represented a capability to fight across all spectrums of warfare, not just with nuclear arms such as this Titan II missile.. Flexible response was a defense strategy implemented by John F. Kennedy in 1961 to address the Kennedy administration's skepticism of Dwight Eisenhower's New Look and its policy of massive retaliation.

  4. Presidency of John F. Kennedy - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_John_F._Kennedy

    John F. Kennedy's tenure as the 35th president of the United States began with his inauguration on January 20, 1961, and ended with his assassination on November 22, 1963. . Kennedy, a Democrat from Massachusetts, took office following his narrow victory over Republican incumbent vice president Richard Nixon in the 1960 presidential elect

  5. Massive retaliation - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_retaliation

    President John F. Kennedy abandoned the policy of massive retaliation during the Cuban Missile Crisis in favor of flexible response. The Soviet nuclear MRBMs in Cuba had very short flight time to their U.S. targets and could have crippled the SAC bomber bases before the aircraft could take off to launch massive retaliation against the Soviet Union.

  6. Kennedy Doctrine - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennedy_Doctrine

    The Kennedy Doctrine refers to foreign policy initiatives of the 35th President of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, towards Latin America during his administration between 1961 and 1963. Kennedy voiced support for the containment of communism as well as the reversal of communist progress in the Western Hemisphere .

  7. Newly released JFK documents point to what the CIA was hiding

    www.aol.com/news/newly-released-jfk-documents...

    Just seven weeks before the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the CIA intercepted a curious phone call to the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City. ... A prime example is one of the newly ...

  8. United States presidential doctrines - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential...

    The Kennedy Doctrine refers to foreign policy initiatives of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, towards Latin America during his term in office. Kennedy voiced support for the containment of Communism and the reversal of Communist progress in the Western Hemisphere.

  9. Today in history: John F. Kennedy was born - AOL

    www.aol.com/news/2015-05-29-today-in-history...

    Nearly 100 years ago, one of the most fondly remembered U.S. presidents was born. John F. Kennedy was born May 29, 1917, in Brookline, Massachusetts, a little town just outside of center Boston.