However, some political experts argued that Kennedy's margin of victory had come almost entirely from Catholic areas, and thus Humphrey decided to continue the contest in the heavily Protestant state of West Virginia.

" Kennedy won the Wisconsin primary, but by a smaller margin than anticipated ; some commentators argued that Kennedy's victory margin had come almost entirely from areas that were heavily Roman Catholic, and that Protestants actually supported Humphrey.

Historians have explained Kennedy's victory in terms of an economic recession, the numerical dominance of 17 million more registered Democrats than Republicans, the votes that Kennedy gained among Catholics practically matched the votes Nixon gained among Protestants, Kennedy's better organization, and Kennedy's superior campaigning skills.

Never a close ally of John F. Kennedy, he was dropped as DNC chairman after Kennedy's 1960 general election victory.

Shortly after midnight on 5 June, Longet and Williams were watching Senator Kennedy's televised primary victory speech in Kennedy's suite in his hotel and saw Kennedy make the " little hand gesture ".

In spite of Kennedy's victory, his Democratic Party actually lost twenty seats to the opposition Republican Party.

In January 2010, Pavone weighed in on the special election victory of Republican Scott Brown to fill the late Ted Kennedy's U. S. Senate seat.

President Kennedy's latest warning to the Communist world that the United States will build up its military strength to meet any challenge in Berlin or elsewhere was, somewhat surprisingly, reported in full text or fairly accurate excerpts behind the Iron Curtain.

`` President Kennedy's enlargement of the American military program was welcomed on Wall Street as a stimulus to the American munitions industry.

As was to be expected Kennedy's latest speech was greeted with enthusiasm by revenge-seeking circles in Bonn, where officials of the West German government praised it ''.

One of Mrs. Kennedy's initial concerns as First Lady was the sad state of the furnishings in a building which is supposed to be a national shrine.

The rule was enforced by demand of Sen. Wayne Morse ( D., Ore. ) in connection with President Eisenhower's cabinet selections in 1953 and President Kennedy's in 1961.

He was critical of what he feels is President Kennedy's tendency to be too conciliatory.

But with the convening of the new Congress, he was the public man again, presiding over the Senate until John Kennedy's Inauguration.

First conceived during the Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower as a three-man spacecraft to follow the one-man Project Mercury which put the first Americans in space, Apollo was later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy's national goal of " landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth " by the end of the 1960s, which he proposed in a May 25, 1961 address to Congress.

Kennedy's goal was accomplished on the Apollo 11 mission when astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed their Lunar Module ( LM ) on the Moon on July 20, 1969 and walked on its surface while Michael Collins remained in lunar orbit in the command spacecraft, and all three landed safely on Earth on July 24.

He was also allegedly involved in a CIA plot to assassinate Fidel Castro ; documents uncovered during congressional investigations into John F Kennedy's death bring to light a message outlining how he had plans to assassinate Castro, his brother Raúl Castro, and Che Guevara.

But six months after the crisis, a Gallup Poll found that public worry about nuclear weapons had fallen back to its lowest point since 1957, and there was a view, disputed by CND supporters, that U. S. President John F. Kennedy's success in facing down Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev turned the British public away from CND.

In American contexts, the word " Camelot " is sometimes used to refer admiringly to the presidency of John F. Kennedy, as his term was said to have potential and promise for the future, and many were inspired by Kennedy's speeches, vision, and policies.

Kennedy's speech marked the first instance where the U. S. acknowledged that East Berlin was part of the Soviet bloc along with the rest of East Germany.

In practice sessions before the trip, Kennedy had run through a number of sentences, even paragraphs, to recite in German ; in these sessions, he was helped by Margaret Plischke, a translator working for the US State Department ; by Ted Sorensen, Kennedy's counsel and habitual speechwriter ; and by an interpreter, Robert Lochner, who had grown up in Berlin.

A committee was formed to advise Kennedy's widow Jacqueline, who would make the final decision.

Following Kennedy's assassination in November 1963, Peel passed himself off as a reporter for the Liverpool Echo in order to attend the arraignment of Lee Harvey Oswald, and he and a friend can be seen in the footage of the 22 / 23 November midnight press conference at Dallas Police Department when Oswald was paraded before the media.

Dole was a longstanding conservative deficit hawk who had even voted against John F. Kennedy's tax cuts, while Kemp was an outspoken supply-sider.

The square was renamed John-F .- Kennedy-Platz on 25 November 1963, three days after Kennedy's assassination.

To some South Boston residents, Kennedy's support of a plan that " integrated " their children with blacks and his apparent unwillingness to do the same with his own children, was hypocrisy.

Elena Kagan, who had presented the government's case as Solicitor General of the U. S. and who was nominated to succeed Justice Stevens, supported Kennedy's ruling in her arguments that pointed out that the ruling spelled out for prosecutors and defendants just how the right against self-incrimination applies in such cases.

Lyndon B. Johnson was the only president under the amendment to be eligible to serve more than two terms in total, having served for only fourteen months following John F. Kennedy's assassination.

Passed in 1967, this law was a congressional response in delayed dismay about John F. Kennedy's appointment of his brother Robert F. Kennedy to the office of the Attorney General.

Kennedy's Roman Catholic religion was an issue.

Afterward, Robert Kennedy visited with labor leaders who were extremely unhappy with the choice of Johnson and after seeing the depth of labor opposition to Johnson, he ran messages between the hotel suites of his brother and Johnson ; apparently trying to undermine the proposed ticket without John Kennedy's authorization and to get Johnson to agree to be the Democratic Party chairman rather than vice president.

Afterward, Robert Kennedy visited with labor leaders who were extremely unhappy with the choice of Johnson and after seeing the depth of labor opposition to Johnson, he ran messages between the hotel suites of his brother and Johnson — apparently trying to undermine the proposed ticket without John Kennedy's authorization.

Powell's committee proved extremely effective in enacting major parts of President Kennedy's " New Frontier " and President Johnson's " Great Society " social programs and the War on Poverty.

Precisely 0. 60 second after starting her extremely quick westward head snap towards Mr. Zapruder and the grassy knoll, President Kennedy's head then emerges back into the Zapruder film view at Z-225.

Kennedy's persona was extremely mild-mannered, the polar opposite of George's, effectively acting as a straight man.

In his recent evaluation of Kennedy's potentialities for leadership, Walter Lippmann has cited the `` precision '' of his mind, his `` immense command '' of factual detail, and his `` instinct for the crucial point '' as impressive in the extreme ; ;

The speech is considered one of Kennedy's best, both a notable moment of the Cold War and a high point of the New Frontier.

Humphrey, to this point Kennedy's main challenger in the primaries, had lost badly to Kennedy in West Virginia and had dropped out of the race.

Mrs. Lincoln, who was in the motorcade when Kennedy was assassinated, made it a point to visit Kennedy's grave at Arlington National Cemetery every year afterward on the anniversary of his death.

On September 26, 1960 Rostenkowski witnessed what many consider the turning point in Kennedy's battle with Richard Nixon.

Janet G. Travell's work with trigger point and treatment of US John F. Kennedy's back pain led to her being asked to be the first female Personal Physician to the President.

Kennedy's plan on the faceoff was to get the puck to Max Bentley, who was stationed at the point.