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This is a response to the biographics biography on JFK: YouTube
1. During the 1960 campaign for president JFK constantly lambasted the Eisenhower administration for allowing a "missile gap" to develop between the US and Soviet Union. Near the end of the campaign, Eisenhower invited both LBJ and JFK to the white house and explained that there was no missile gap. JFK continued to spread fake news about the "missile gap" and pledged to increase nuclear tests and the number of nuclear missiles. After JFK took office he waited a few months and then revealed that the US actually had more nuclear missiles than the Soviets. JFK got all of the credit for "closing the missile gap" which never existed.
2. JFK did not care when the Soviets put up the Berlin Wall. West Germans were outraged that the US just let the wall go up without any response. He ignored it and it wasn't until the West Germany chancellor called JFK personally and explained why walls are bad that JFK agreed to do a visit to Berlin to mend relations.
3. He appointed his own brother as Attorney General. The Attorney General's job is to act as an impartial cop and prosecute crimes of all branches of government. How exactly was Robert Kennedy going to be able to be a check on JFK if he is his brother? People say that Barr is a hack and a Trump stooge but at least he isn't Trump's son. That is exceptionally corrupt.
4. JFK massively reduced the US air force's involvement in the Bay of Pigs to hide our involvement. He didn't tell the armed Cuban Exiles who would be invading Cuba that they would not be receiving the agreed amount of air cover until they were on their way to Cuba! He was marching them to their deaths.
5. JFK supported the war in Vietnam. He increased the number of "military advisers" in South Vietnam.
6. JFK was an awful husband to his wife.
Note: There is a lot of talk about the Cuban Missile crisis and critiques on the way JFK handled it. Blockading a country is definitely illegal and an act of war. Invading Cuba in the Bay of Pigs may have been the inciting incident that lead to Castro wanting nukes. During the crisis, JFK made multiple plans and seriously considered invading Cuba despite the fact that Cuba had not committed an act of war against the US. Even if you think the US has a right to invade Cuba because they are so close, Turkey had nuclear weapons and they shared a border with the Soviet Union, ect. I, however, like aggressive foreign policy so JFK gets a pass here. The hippies can whine. If you are more inclined towards non-intervention then you have even more reason to dislike JFK.
TLDR: Given JFK's short presidency and lack of positive accomplishments he made a staggering number of errors in judgement. It is honestly hard to point to any good policies that came out of his presidency besides the fact that he was a unifying figure in American politics.
1. During the 1960 campaign for president JFK constantly lambasted the Eisenhower administration for allowing a "missile gap" to develop between the US and Soviet Union. Near the end of the campaign, Eisenhower invited both LBJ and JFK to the white house and explained that there was no missile gap. JFK continued to spread fake news about the "missile gap" and pledged to increase nuclear tests and the number of nuclear missiles. After JFK took office he waited a few months and then revealed that the US actually had more nuclear missiles than the Soviets. JFK got all of the credit for "closing the missile gap" which never existed.
2. JFK did not care when the Soviets put up the Berlin Wall. West Germans were outraged that the US just let the wall go up without any response. He ignored it and it wasn't until the West Germany chancellor called JFK personally and explained why walls are bad that JFK agreed to do a visit to Berlin to mend relations.
3. He appointed his own brother as Attorney General. The Attorney General's job is to act as an impartial cop and prosecute crimes of all branches of government. How exactly was Robert Kennedy going to be able to be a check on JFK if he is his brother? People say that Barr is a hack and a Trump stooge but at least he isn't Trump's son. That is exceptionally corrupt.
4. JFK massively reduced the US air force's involvement in the Bay of Pigs to hide our involvement. He didn't tell the armed Cuban Exiles who would be invading Cuba that they would not be receiving the agreed amount of air cover until they were on their way to Cuba! He was marching them to their deaths.
5. JFK supported the war in Vietnam. He increased the number of "military advisers" in South Vietnam.
6. JFK was an awful husband to his wife.
Note: There is a lot of talk about the Cuban Missile crisis and critiques on the way JFK handled it. Blockading a country is definitely illegal and an act of war. Invading Cuba in the Bay of Pigs may have been the inciting incident that lead to Castro wanting nukes. During the crisis, JFK made multiple plans and seriously considered invading Cuba despite the fact that Cuba had not committed an act of war against the US. Even if you think the US has a right to invade Cuba because they are so close, Turkey had nuclear weapons and they shared a border with the Soviet Union, ect. I, however, like aggressive foreign policy so JFK gets a pass here. The hippies can whine. If you are more inclined towards non-intervention then you have even more reason to dislike JFK.
TLDR: Given JFK's short presidency and lack of positive accomplishments he made a staggering number of errors in judgement. It is honestly hard to point to any good policies that came out of his presidency besides the fact that he was a unifying figure in American politics.
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