When Kennedy's newly appointed NASA Administrator James E. Webb requested a 30 percent budget increase for his agency, Kennedy supported an acceleration of NASA's large booster program but deferred a decision on the broader issue.

In June 2012, it was announced that producer Kathleen Kennedy, a long-term collaborator with Steven Spielberg and a producer of the Indiana Jones films, had been appointed as co-chair of Lucasfilm Ltd.

* February 12 – Anthony M. Kennedy is appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States.

After his election, President Kennedy appointed Stevenson as the Ambassador to the United Nations ; he served from 1961 to 1965.

His lack of influence was thrown into relief later that year when Kennedy appointed Johnson's friend Sarah T. Hughes to a federal judgeship ; whereas Johnson had tried and failed to garner the nomination for Hughes at the beginning of his vice presidency, House Speaker Sam Rayburn wrangled the appointment from Kennedy in exchange for support of an administration bill.

Kennedy did give Johnson control over all presidential appointments involving Texas, and he was appointed chairman of the President's Ad Hoc Committee for Science.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., father of President John F. Kennedy, to serve as the first Chairman of the SEC, along with James M. Landis ( one of the architects of the 1934 Act and other New Deal legislation ) and Ferdinand Pecora ( Chief Counsel to the United States Senate Committee on Banking and Currency during its investigation of Wall Street banking and stock brokerage practices ).

He served on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit after being appointed by President John F. Kennedy and then served as the Solicitor General after being appointed by President Lyndon Johnson in 1965.

But in 1962 Kennedy appointed former State Department Under Secretary Chester Bowles to serve as his Special Adviser on Foreign Affairs.

In May 1961, Kennedy appointed Clifford to the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, which he chaired beginning in April 1963 and ending in January 1968.

Galbraith, first at left, as US ambassador to India, with President John F. Kennedy, Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson and Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of India, 1961During his time as an adviser to President John F. Kennedy, Galbraith was appointed United States Ambassador to India from 1961 to 1963.

* Thomas B. Mason, U. S. attorney for the Western District of Virginia appointed by John F. Kennedy

Anthony Celebrezze became mayor of Cleveland in 1953, and was later appointed Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in the Kennedy administration.

The speech was Minow's first major speech after he was appointed chairman of the FCC by President John F Kennedy.

In 1961 President John F. Kennedy, a Democrat, appointed Republican, Dillon Treasury Secretary.

During the Kennedy Administration, Moyers was first appointed as associate director of public affairs for the newly created Peace Corps in 1961.

She was appointed to the frontbench by Charles Kennedy after the 2001 General Election as the party's spokeswoman on women's issues and older people from 2001, with a seat in the Liberal Democrat Frontbench Team.

President Kennedy appointed Bowles to the post of Under Secretary of State in 1961.

Freeman was elected Governor in 1954, re-elected in 1956 and 1958, and after losing re-election in 1960 was appointed by President John F. Kennedy to serve as U. S. Secretary of Agriculture.

He was appointed by President John F. Kennedy as U. S. deputy ambassador to the United Nations serving from 1961 to 1965.

You remember the words of President Kennedy a week or so ago, when someone asked him when he was in Canada, and Dean Rusk was in Europe, and Vice President Johnson was in Asia, `` Who is running the store ''??

During last year's campaign, Kennedy asked Walton, an utter novice in organization politics, to assist him.

The feeling was that he would sense an inner core of toughness and determination in the President and that plain talk by Mr. Kennedy would give him pause.

Though President John F. Kennedy was primarily concerned with the crucial problems of Berlin and disarmament adviser McCloy's unexpected report from Khrushchev, his new enthusiasm and reliance on personal diplomacy involved him in other key problems of U.S. foreign policy last week.

Mr. Kennedy, Mr. White believes, `` had mastered politics on so many different levels that no other American could match him ''.

Mr. White admires him profoundly and leaves no doubt that he is a Democrat himself who expects Mr. Kennedy to be a fine President.

alt = President John F. Kennedy addresses a joint session of Congress, with Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn seated behind him

And again on October 17, Soviet embassy official Georgy Bolshakov brought President Kennedy a " personal message " from Khrushchev reassuring him that " under no circumstances would surface-to-surface missiles be sent to Cuba.

The next morning, Bundy met with Kennedy and showed him the U-2 photographs and briefed him on the CIA's analysis of the images.

This was confirmed in the case of R v Carroll, where the police found new evidence convincingly disproving Carroll's sworn alibi two decades after he had been acquitted of murder charges in the death of Ipswich child Deidre Kennedy, and successfully prosecuted him for perjury.

The story brought him to the attention of John P. Kennedy, a Baltimorean of considerable means.

It was reported that Kennedy would work alongside Lucas, who would remain chief executive and serve as co-chairman for at least one year, after which she would succeed him as the company's sole leader.

He later received lifetime achievement awards in the Kennedy Center Honors, and from the Screen Actors Guild and American Film Institute ; in 1999, the American Film Institute also numbered him 15th in their Greatest Male Stars of All Time list.

Plischke wrote a 1997 account of visiting Kennedy at the White House weeks before the trip to help compose the speech and teach him the proper pronunciation ; she also claims that the phrase had been translated stateside already by the translator scheduled to accompany him on the trip (" a rather unpleasant man who complained bitterly that he had had to interrupt his vacation just to watch the President ’ s mannerisms ").

Robert Lochner claimed in his memoirs that Kennedy had asked him for a translation of " I am a Berliner ", and that they practiced the phrase in Brandt's office.

* Vincent Gardenia played him in the television film Kennedy ( 1983 ).

Frankenheimer was a friend of Senator Robert F. Kennedy and drove him to the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles the night Kennedy was assassinated in June 1968.

In his early life, his political views were liberal and he supported President John F. Kennedy, whose death " traumatized " him.

Roosevelt was 42 years old when sworn in as President of the United States in 1901, making him the youngest president ever ; he beat out the youngest elected president, John F. Kennedy, by only one year.

He served in the Senate from 1915 until his inauguration as President in 1921, making him the first sitting senator to be elected President of the United States ; John F. Kennedy and Barack Obama followed in this pattern.

Kennedy was elected with a lead of 112, 827 votes, or 0. 16 % of the popular vote, giving him a victory of 303 to 219 in the Electoral College, the closest since 1916.

Realizing that this was a strategy touted by his opponents to keep the public from taking him seriously, Kennedy stated frankly, " I'm not running for vice president, I'm running for president.