[allendale]

The election of Kennedy was made possible only by massive electoral fraud in Chicago and Louisiana. It changed history. American culture was forever transformed by Vietnam and the Immigration Reform Act of 1965, not to mention the misnamed “great society” socialist programs that can not even be modified much less eliminated. Ever since 1960 Democrats see fraud as a useful tool.

[nwrep]

Nixon was to the left of JFK on national defense in the 1960 election.

[Founding Father]

You forgot Texas...it received little notice, but LBJ stole the state for Kennedy. Check out the electoral map swapping Texas to Nixon.

[EarlT357]

“American culture was forever transformed by Vietnam and the Immigration Reform Act of 1965, not to mention the misnamed “great society” socialist programs that can not even be modified much less eliminated.”
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Let’s not confuse JFK, the womanizer fake hero (who literally employed real authors to write his version of “history”) with that vile evil murderer, LBJ. Johnson brought his own brand of violence out of Texas and imposed it on America in the form of Viet Nam after he participated in the murder that gave him the Presidency.

[Verginius Rufus]

Kennedy accomplished very little, although he did make some inspiring speeches, started the Peace Corps, and committed the US to putting a man on the moon before the end of the decade.

As far the major challenges he faced--Bay of Pigs, Berlin, Cuban missile crisis, civil rights, Indochina--a case can be made that Nixon would have handled each of them more skillfully than Kennedy. JFK was sympathetic to integration of Ole Miss, but badly handled the situation when James Meredith enrolled (which ended with two people killed on campus).