Was JFK a good president?

Was he a good president or is he remembered so well because of his early death? The negatives I can think of are the bay of pigs, increased involvement with Vietnam and being bullied internationally by Krushchev early on and on the other hand Cuba was a p.r success.


Would be interested as to what you think.
Was JFK a good president?
HELL YEAH!
Was JFK a good president?
Yes he was a good prez!!
Reply:yesi think he was and then the space program but then its all a conspiracy he still is alive oswald didnt shoot him its in the video * cia tackles yound stunna trying to prove it all*
Reply:He was a lot of charisma, leadership was okay nothing to write home about he didn't really live out his presidency to give him high or low marks. He is remembered for just a few things some good and some bad like all presidents are remembered for as time passes by .. no president was ever perfect.
Reply:he was amazing.
Reply:Despite the problems JFK had, he was a great president.





Kennedy was bullied by Khrushchev, but later he was able to stand up to him, and he got the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (1963). He also established the "hotline" to improve communication between the White House and the Kremlin.





Kennedy was very successful with his "Good Neighbor Policy" in Latin America, and no president since has had similar results.





Remember how well he handled the steel strike of 1962.





JFK inspired a generation--landing on the moon, the Peace Corps. Many people hope that Obama will be able to repeat his performance.
Reply:He wasn't too bad, He did save the economy by lowering taxes. He would stand up to our nations enemies a LITTLE bit, but could have done better... a lot better.
Reply:In my opinion, he was a good president, if not a great one. He made Kruschev back down in Cuba, and he vowed to go to any cost, to go anywhere, to pay any price to defeat communism.





Here at home, he strongly supported education and began the era of civil rights. LBJ's Civil Rights Act of 1964 was really Kennedy's, but Jack died before he could implement it.





Kennedy's challenge for the space program had the side-effect of making many products available to the common consumer including color TVs (they used to be black%26amp;white) micro-wave ovens, cell phones, and personal computers.
Reply:He was so-so.


He and his whiz kids were a bit too arrogant for their own good, especially considering the overall lack of experience. The Bay of Pigs disaster wouldn't have been so bad, except that Kruschev saw him as a weak leader, and the increased involvement in Vietnam was one of several responses primarily personal on Kennedy's part to show that he was, too, tough.


The Cuban missile crisis is as close to total nuclear war as we've ever been and it was entirely Kennedy's fault.


The man who would "pay any price, bear any burden..." for liberty, when the president of Vietnam didn't do as he wanted, turned himself into Henry II and Diem into Becket without a thought.


He did make strides in civil rights. The fact that the whole concept was a mixture of campaign strategy and Johnson encouragement, rather than from any interest on his part, shouldn't detract from that fact. Of course, as usual, the whiz kids' arrogance made for some heavy-handed tactics that caused undue resentment in the south, and set up an extra decade or two of friction, but that's not too bad.


Probably his greatest success was the simplification of the income tax codes and lowering of tax rates, thereby increasing government income and giving the Republicans from Reagan on a club with which to beat the Democrats over the head.

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