was John Kennedy who promised that America would have a man on the moon by the end of the 1960s, which happened. He founded the Peace Corps and initiated sources of government spending that led America out of a recession within a month of taking office. His handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, where he forced Soviet dictator Nikita Khrushchev to back down, showed that the inexperienced statesman who blundered at the Bay of Pigs had matured. It is also known that John F. Kennedy had many progressive social issues he wished to pursue in his second term. He did not believe he would be
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