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'''John Fitzgerald Kennedy''' '''(May 29, 1917 - November 22, 1963)''' was the 35<sup>th</sup> [[American]] president. He died in 1963 when he was ~~shot~~ by [[Lee Harvey Oswald]]. He authorized the de-segregation of Federal housing and proposed the civil rights bill, passed after his assassination. He was responsible for the Bay of Pigs fiasco. He successfully faced down the [[Soviet Union]]'s plans to station nuclear missiles in [[Cuba]] and faced down a number of hawks in his own administration during that [[Cuban Missile Crisis|crisis]]. He also pledged the USA to put a man on the moon before the end of the 1960s, a pledge that was later fulfilled after his death. A notorious womanizer while he lived, news of this was generally suppressed until well after his death.

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'''John Fitzgerald Kennedy''' '''(May 29, 1917 - November 22, 1963)''' was the 35<sup>th</sup> [[American]] and youngest president. He died in 1963 when he was assassinated by [[Lee Harvey Oswald]].

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Kennedy was responsible for the [[Bay of Pigs]] fiasco, ineptly encouraging the invasion but then pulling back support and even allowing advance notice of the invasion to leak to [[Fidel Castro]]. Kennedy handled the [[Cuban Missile Crisis|crisis]] with the help of hawks in his administration whose conduct, such as putting bombers on alert status, posed a credible threat to [[Soviet Union]] and helped cause it to back down.

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Kennedy authorized the de-segregation of Federal housing and proposed the civil rights bill, passed after his assassination. He also pledged to put a man on the moon before the end of the 1960s, a pledge that was later fulfilled after his death.

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Kennedy cut taxes and appointed [[Byron White]] to the [[U.S. Supreme Court]], who consisted ruled with [[conservatives]] on social issues like [[abortion]] and [[homosexuality]].

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Kennedy was a notorious womanizer, which was concealed from the public until well after his death.

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