I voted Kennedy, cos of the Appollo missions. They were amazing feats and gave us wonderful pictures showing us how small and insignificant out litte planet is in the grand scheme of things.
20th century: War War Depression War War War War War War. And just cos Kennedy said so, in the middle of it all, for a few hours everyone stops, listens and watches man step on something other than our planet.
No... JFK sent our "advisors" to Vietnam and Eisenhower before him opened CIA operations there .... If the protest didn't eat us alive Nixon would have crushed the vietnamse in Cambodia.... [/B][/QUOTE]
yeah some people mistakenly believe that kennedy got us into war with vietnam when it was actually Eisenhower that did because like you said,it was Eisenhower who opened up CIA operations in vietnam and kennedy had plans to pull out of vietman by 1965,that was one of the reasons the cia offed him.when kennedy was killed,Johnson contined Eisenhowers Cia operations.and for the person that said nixon got us out of Vietnam,he only did so because he was under so much pressure from the american people to do so,that bastard never wanted to withdraw from vietnam.He escaleted the war even worse than Johnson did when he came into office.
Originally posted by cornponious
I'm surprised to see Kennedy with so many votes. He didn't do a damn thing. Shows the ignorance of some of those here.corn
actually it shows there are some intelligent people here.Its the 3 people that have voted for bush jr and saying clinton rocks that show their ignorance around here.JFK accomplished more in his short one thousand days in office than any other president ever except for washington.Since his death,we have not had a president that cared about the people.they have only cared about their own agenda.Kennedy was the first president since Lincoln to try and do something for civil rights.He was stepping on the toes of many businesses and government agencys and thats why he was assassinated.he was no angel,but we have not had a presidnet since then who cared about the people and try and fix things in america.
Still no votes for Truman? Does no one know who he was or are you all mad because he dropped the atomic bombs, killing about 1 million, as opposed to half the population of Japan and about 5-7 million American soldiers? [/B][/QUOTE]
Id say thats a good enough of a reason to not vote for that bastard.
anyone who thinks that JFK got us into Veitnam doesnt know there history. Kennedy was going to end that damn war. Either way, i think the most commonly underated president is nixon. Yeah, he may have been involved in some scandals, but ay big deal. Every president has had their far share of criminal acts. Nixon was the best president ever.