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JKF’s Vision took U.S to the Moon
The leadership of John Fitzgerald Kennedy was not only significant in the political side, but in the development of the American space success. From the reading, it is rational to assert that JKF’s vision led the United States to the moon. The main reason for the conclusion of this assertion is because the decision of JKF to support the space program led to the developments that rocketed America to the moon. While he is debated to be among the greatest presidents America has ever had, in the space program, he is undoubted the leader who took united states to the moon.
JKF took the United States to the moon because he got the courage to face the congress and urge the house to support the American space program. However, the courage emanated from the leadership, ideology he took from his father Joe Kennedy. Particularly, his father passed the anticommunist ideologies, which was evident in 1958 when the Sputnik was launched by the Soviet Union (Johnson and Kennedy, 1). After the launch of the Sputnik, JKF was not shaken, nor worried by the anticommunist sentiments like his father. Instead, he took decisive measures to support the American space program and urge the congress to do the same.
Unlike his successor, Lyndon Baines Johnson, JKF was more dreamy and hopeful of the future, especially the American future of the space program. This gave him the guts to have the vision that took America far beyond what any other country had done; taking the united states to the moon. It is the vision of JKF that powered the challenge by President Johnson that the United States needed to overcome the challenge presented by the soviet’s Sputnik (Johnson and Kennedy, 1). This means that JKF gave the vision that rallied the American government and the congress to lead America to the moon.
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Johnson and Kennedy, Week 5 Part 2, Retrieved From, <http://history.msu.edu/hst394/essays/johnson-and-kennedy> August 5, 2015