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In four pages, this paper analyzes how President John F. Kennedy exercised leadership in a consideration of his leadership style, its results, and the differences that exist between its ideal and its reality. Six sources are cited in the bibliography.
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was correct and justified. A President of the United States is also known as Commander in Chief and Chief Executive; the person who assumes this role is ultimately judged
by history based upon personal attributes of leadership. This was certainly true of President John F. Kennedy (1917-1963), whose brief 1,063-day tenure as Commander in Chief has often been
overshadowed by the sense of loss following his assassination. Assessments of his presidency initially focused on what might have been more than what actually was. However, with the
passage of time, historians have endeavored to more critically evaluate Kennedys leadership based upon the decisions he made regarding the important issues facing the United States and the world during
the two years, ten months, and two days he held the nations highest office. John F. Kennedys victory in the election of 1960 was by the slimmest of margins (Keller,
2005). Less than 100,000 votes separated him from his challenger, Richard M. Nixon. Therefore, he hardly had an overwhelming public mandate to immediately exert strong leadership; instead, he
had to exercise restraint and gradually settle into the leadership role, which Kennedy clearly understood (Freedman, 2002). Historians would criticize Kennedy as being led into making decisions by events
and circumstances rather than meeting them head-on. An example of this might be the Bay of Pigs invasion in April of 1961, which was a botched attempt to remove
Cuban Premier Fidel Castro. The plan Kennedy approved had initially been drafted by his predecessor, President Dwight Eisenhower, and proved to be a humiliating defeat for the the young
President, which would negatively affect his relations with the other superpower at the time, the Soviet Union. Chairman Nikita Khrushchev believed this misstep was an example of Kennedys youth
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