That was President John F. Kennedy. He did so in 1961, telling federal contractors to take "affirmative action to ensure that applicants are treated equally without regard to race, color, religion, sex, or national origin."6 The Bottom Line Though affirmative action continues to be a source ...
Kennedy was president for less than three years, but presided over some of the most significant and transitional events in U.S. history, such as the civil rights movement, the initiation of NASA's moon mission, the Cuban missile crisis and the Bay of Pigs invasion. ...
John F. Kennedy assassinationLyndon B. JohnsonCongresspoliticsrace relationsWhen the Kennedy assassination occurred in November 1963, it was not clear that his civil rights bill would pass without major modifications, and most Americans told pollsters that they were unsure of his policy. Fifty years...
the Navy. After the war Kennedy worked briefly as a newspaperman, then entered politics. He was three times elected to the House of Representatives before becoming a senator from Massachusetts. In 1960 he was elected president in a very close race in which there were charges of irregularities...
The space race was a bitter competition that took place in the late 1950s to the mid-1970s, between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.
Oliver Stone's blockbuster biopic about John F. Kennedy has been highly scrutinized for its take on the president's assassination. "JFK" stars Kevin Costner as real-life district attorney Jim Garrison, a man whotheorizedthat the American government—not Lee Harvey Oswald—was responsible for Kenne...
Kennedy has spent years promoting false information and fears about vaccines, baselessly linking vaccines to autism long after such claims were disproven. He alsofalsely claimedCOVID-19 was "ethnically targeted" to attack certain ethnic groups while sparing Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people — a consp...
New polling shows Republicans hold an overwhelmingly positive view of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and most approve of President-elect Donald Trump's decision to put Kennedy in the incoming administration.
Politics is a jungle-torn between doing the right thing and staying in office. —John F. Kennedy Modern politics seems to be interested in maximizing drama instead of solving problems. —Lex Fridman Today's political climate does not allow the luxury of apathy. —Trent Reznor ...
The Republican Party can lead any person to believe that their promises will be fulfilled in the future. They follow the Hitler line – no matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as truth. —John F. Kennedy ...