The Making of a Hero at Harvard University
Harvard University is the home town university for the rich, handsome, elegant and articulate of American society's most élite citizens. John Fitzgerald Kennedy fit the bill that a proud university like Harvard would like to have as one of their students. Mr. Kennedy was well respected at home and abroad with his elegant and articulate way with words. Mr. Kennedy eventually would become the 35th president of the United States. He became president of the United States at the age of 43 being the youngest man to ever hold office and the first Roman Catholic ever to be elected for such a high position in our government. Harvard University had many prominent citizens who walked those hallowed halls graduating with honors but Mr. Kennedy proved to be the most honored of them all. Kennedy born in Brookline, Massachusetts, on may 29, 1917 a descendant of Irish Catholics who had immigrate to America in the 19th century proved that he was a real American.
He gave the American people a sense of purpose to meet the challenges of a scientific age, help change the laws to strengthen the civil rights, enacting the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and opposed discrimination in all walks of life. Mr. Kennedy showed his courage during World War II as a PT boat commander and again when he backed down the Russians during the cold war when they wanted to place missiles in Cuba just a few miles from the shores of our nation. Mr. Kennedy was not a man to be reckoned with as he showed his bravery on the battle field and the political field. He showed Americans that being president had responsibilities and he took them on in full force. Mr. Kennedy help seniors by the additions of Medicare to give them health care coverage along with the monthly income they were already getting to help them with their cost of living. He also had congress pass a bill to increase social security to keep up with the cost of living scale and he added a program to help those who were not entitled to get social security. He did many things while he was president of the United States to help the people of America and people all around the world.
Kennedy along with his wife Jackie traveled around the world on behalf of the United States spreading good will and finding out what things we could do as a nation to help others in other countries. He fought aggression whenever he could make the world a safer place to live. He still believed in our nation's future in the space age getting congress to fund the space program. He did much for our nation and it was a very sad day when he was assonated. Our nation and the world lost a great man that day in November of 1963. The halls of the Harvard University still Sound of his passing to commemorate a great man.
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