Autobiographical Sketch of the Political Career Of John F. Kennedy

From my sustain in 1917 I was seemingly destined for a political career. I am John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and my pump name of Fitzgerald would serve to remind the voters of Boston and Massachusetts of my maternal grandfather, Honey Fitz Fitzgerald, a beloved rea give-and-take mayor of Boston. During World War II I pulled all the political strings my wealthy family waste in an effort to be sent to the fighting, for I knew that after the war I would be a more viable candidate as a combat veteran.Virtually all of my early life rotate around politics, and both my older brother and I understood we were meant for high office. My father, Joseph P. Kennedy often said that his son would be Americas commencement Catholic president. He would prove to be prophetic.After the war, in 1946, I conducted my first campaign for congress (jfk library n.d.), enlisting the help of my sisters, my mother and my popular grandfather, going direct on crutches as I recovered from my war wounds. I was elect ed on my first try.My last from the beginning was the presidency of the coupled States and I used my familys money and political connections toward that end. I first had to have a national platform and I chose to seek a seat in the U.S. Senate. I was elected in 1953 and immediately began my despoil on the next obstacle. In 1956 I broke a tradition of the Democratic Party by actively seeking the nomination for vice-present on the ticket headed by Adlai Stevenson (White foretoken.gov n.d.).My brother Robert once joked that that I have been saved from that mistake by being denied the nomination, as Stevenson muzzy to the sitting president, Dwight Eisenhower, in a landslide. Still this honed my political skills and allowed me to build a national base for my assault on the presidential nomination in four years.In 1960 I was elected 35th president of the United States in the closest election invariably conducted, narrowly beating out the sitting vice-president, Richard Nixon (ibid). On November 22 of 1963 I made an ill-fated trip to Texas to mend some political fences within the party. I over-rode the advice of my security detail, which cute me to ride in a limo with a bulletproof canopy. I wanted the crowd to have a better view of my wife and me as we drove past them on the narrow streets of Dallas on a beautiful sunny day. As we were clear of the downtown canyon shots rang out and I was assassinate as my wife and a cheering crowd looked on in horror. I was the youngest man ever elected president and the youngest man to die in office.Works CitedJohn F. Kennedy Library and Museum Biographies and Profiles KennethP. ODonnell Retrieved 3-2-08 fromhttp//www.jfklibrary.org/Historical+Resources/Biographies+and+Profiles/Profiles/Kenneth+P.+ODonnell.htmThe White House John Kennedy Retrieved 3-2-08 fromhttp//www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/jk35.html