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==Foreign policy==

==Foreign policy==

[[File:July2.jpg|right|350px|thumb|President Kennedy reviewing a military parade.]]

[[File:July2.jpg|right|350px|thumb|President Kennedy reviewing a military parade.]]

Kennedy was primarily interested in foreign policy.  Weeks after his [[John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address|memorable inaugural address]] sounded the tocsin for vigorous anti-communism, he encountered disaster when the invasion of Cuba failed at the [[Bay of Pigs]] in 1961, and he was forced to pay ransom of $53 million U.S. dollars in food and medicine in exchange for the 1,113 prisoners and 76 other exiles being held in Cuba.<ref>http://onwar.com/aced/chrono/c1900s/yr60/fcuba1961.htm</ref> Soviet leader [[Nikita Khrushchev]], sensing weakness, pushed hard on the Berlin issue, and was able to build the Berlin Wall in East Berlin, despite Kennedy's later rhetoric, "Ich bin ein Berliner!" ("I am a Berliner!")

Kennedy was primarily interested in foreign policy.  Weeks after his [[John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address|memorable inaugural address]] sounded the tocsin for vigorous anti-communism, he encountered disaster when the invasion of Cuba failed at the [[Bay of Pigs]] in 1961, and he was forced to pay ransom of $53 million U.S. dollars in food and medicine in exchange for the 1,113 prisoners and 76 other exiles being held in Cuba.<ref>http://onwar.com/aced/chrono/c1900s/yr60/fcuba1961.htm</ref> Soviet leader [[Nikita Khrushchev]], sensing weakness, pushed hard on the Berlin issue, and was able to build the [[Berlin Wall]].  At the Berlin Wall in a famous speech, Kennedy said in German, "I am jelly donut" ("Ich bin ein Berliner!") when he meant to imply he was a free person fighting for freedom on the other side of the wall.

===Peace Corps===

===Peace Corps===