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title: "96 President kennedy Quotes by 79 authors"
description: "Browse 96 President kennedy quotes by 79 authors. Discover the best President kennedy sayings and thoughts."
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> [President Kennedy was the greatest man I ever met, and the best friend I ever had.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-powers/president-kennedy-was-the-greatest-man-i-ever-met-and-the-best-friend/)

[David Powers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-powers/)

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> [ We had a picture of the pope and President \[J.F.\] Kennedy on top of the television. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-pence/we-had-a-picture-of-the-pope-and-president-j-f-kennedy-on-top-of-the/)

[Mike Pence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mike-pence/)

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> [On several occasions President Kennedy encouraged me to take a lover, an obvious sign he also had some himself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pierre-salinger/on-several-occasions-president-kennedy-encouraged-me-to-take-a-lover/)

[Pierre Salinger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pierre-salinger/)

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> [While the question of who killed President Kennedy is important, the question 'what killed him' is more important.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-luther-king-jr/while-the-question-of-who-killed-president-kennedy-is-important-the/)

[Martin Luther King, Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-luther-king-jr/)

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> [When President Kennedy took office, I was in the midst of my education.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/buzz-aldrin/when-president-kennedy-took-office-i-was-in-the-midst-of-my-education/)

[Buzz Aldrin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/buzz-aldrin/)

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> [President Kennedy's life and death represent both what is possible in America, and all of the work left undone.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-schlossberg/president-kennedy-s-life-and-death-represent-both-what-is-possible-in/)

[Jack Schlossberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-schlossberg/)

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> [ \[On President Kennedy's assassination Nov. 22, 1963:\] Something dreadful is going to happen to the president today. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeane-dixon/on-president-kennedy-s-assassination-nov-22-1963-something-dreadful/)

[Jeane Dixon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeane-dixon/)

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> [President Kennedy is very democratic and very penetrating.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marilyn-monroe/president-kennedy-is-very-democratic-and-very-penetrating/)

[Marilyn Monroe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marilyn-monroe/)

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> [Look at what President Kennedy managed to achieve during the Cuban missile crisis. If Bush had been president in 1962, do you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bianca-jagger/look-at-what-president-kennedy-managed-to-achieve-during-the-cuban/)

[Bianca Jagger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bianca-jagger/)

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> [When you tax capital gains income, you don't help the economy, you hurt the economy, which is why President Kennedy, President Reagan,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rob-portman/when-you-tax-capital-gains-income-you-don-t-help-the-economy-you-hurt/)

[Rob Portman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rob-portman/)

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> [The fact that President-elect Kennedy would be the first Catholic president did not sit well with many Americans. There was a fear…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clint-hill/the-fact-that-president-elect-kennedy-would-be-the-first-catholic/)

[Clint Hill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clint-hill/)

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> [“Had (President) Kennedy turned to his advisers and wailed, "What can we beat the Russians at?" and if someone had cried "Backgammon!"…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-smith/had-president-kennedy-turned-to-his-advisers-and-wailed-what-can-we/)

[Andrew Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-smith/)

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> [I have met every president since President Kennedy. And I think Barack Obama must be listed as one of the best. This…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-lewis/i-have-met-every-president-since-president-kennedy-and-i-think-barack/)

[John Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-lewis/)

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> [It's my name on the ballot, and it's me running this race. I'm the one doing this. Not my father and not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/it-s-my-name-on-the-ballot-and-it-s-me-running-this-race-i-m-the-one/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [In 1962, President Kennedy succeeded in captivating Americans by explaining the advantages of being the first country to reach the moon and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mario-cuomo/in-1962-president-kennedy-succeeded-in-captivating-americans-by/)

[Mario Cuomo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mario-cuomo/)

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> [President Kennedy knew every agent by name. President Johnson knew many of us, but not as many as President Kennedy, probably.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clint-hill/president-kennedy-knew-every-agent-by-name-president-johnson-knew/)

[Clint Hill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clint-hill/)

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> [Every time we've had a pro-growth fundamental tax reform, be it under President Reagan, President Kennedy - you can even go all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeb-hensarling/every-time-we-ve-had-a-pro-growth-fundamental-tax-reform-be-it-under/)

[Jeb Hensarling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeb-hensarling/)

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> [We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-f-kennedy/we-choose-to-go-to-the-moon-in-this-decade-and-do-the-other-things-3/)

[John F. Kennedy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-f-kennedy/)

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> [Since President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act in 1963, the gap between men and women's earnings has narrowed by less than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jackie-speier/since-president-kennedy-signed-the-equal-pay-act-in-1963-the-gap/)

[Jackie Speier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jackie-speier/)

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> [Well, I think the reality is that as you study - when President Kennedy cut marginal tax rates, when Ronald Reagan cut…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mike-pence/well-i-think-the-reality-is-that-as-you-study-when-president-kennedy/)

[Mike Pence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mike-pence/)

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> [President Kennedy has named two Negroes to District Judgeships and appointed Thurgood Marshall to the United States Court of Appeals. When I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kennedy/president-kennedy-has-named-two-negroes-to-district-judgeships-and/)

[Robert Kennedy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-kennedy/)

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> [Courage is the virtue that President Kennedy most admired. He sought out those people who had demonstrated in some way, whether it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-kennedy/courage-is-the-virtue-that-president-kennedy-most-admired-he-sought/)

[Robert Kennedy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-kennedy/)

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> [I believe history will come to view 9/11 as an event on par with November 22, 1963, the date on which John…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-meacham/i-believe-history-will-come-to-view-9-11-as-an-event-on-par-with/)

[Jon Meacham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-meacham/)

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> [To paraphrase president Kennedy's inaugural, the torch has been passed to a new generation of cartoonists and they are doing really interesting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-mankoff/to-paraphrase-president-kennedy-s-inaugural-the-torch-has-been-passed/)

[Robert Mankoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-mankoff/)

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> [“The same conclusion had already been presented to incoming President Kennedy by Arthur Schlesinger, transmitting the report of his Latin American Mission,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/keith-bolender/the-same-conclusion-had-already-been-presented-to-incoming-president/)

[Keith Bolender](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/keith-bolender/)

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> [Part of what's unique about climate change, though, is the nature of some of the opposition to action. It's pretty rare that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barack-obama/part-of-what-s-unique-about-climate-change-though-is-the-nature-of/)

[Barack Obama](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barack-obama/)

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> [If Lee Harvey Oswald had nothing to do with President Kennedy's assassination and was framed…this otherwise independent and defiant would-be revolutionary, who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vincent-bugliosi/if-lee-harvey-oswald-had-nothing-to-do-with-president-kennedy-s/)

[Vincent Bugliosi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vincent-bugliosi/)

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> [“As we think about the next 50 years, I remember a story President Kennedy told a week before he was killed. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/newton-n-minnow/as-we-think-about-the-next-50-years-i-remember-a-story-president/)

[Newton N. Minnow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/newton-n-minnow/)

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> [Historians will come to their own judgments about President Kennedy. Here is how I choose to remember him. He was an heir…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-kennedy/historians-will-come-to-their-own-judgments-about-president-kennedy/)

[Edward Kennedy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-kennedy/)

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> [Scientists constantly get clobbered with the idea that we spent 27 billion dollars on the Apollo programs, and are asked "What more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carl-sagan/scientists-constantly-get-clobbered-with-the-idea-that-we-spent-27/)

[Carl Sagan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carl-sagan/)

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> [“Optimistic, because even though the year of Obama's birth Herbert Lee, a black farmer with nine children, was shot in the head…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/faith-adiele/optimistic-because-even-though-the-year-of-obama-s-birth-herbert-lee/)

[Faith Adiele](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/faith-adiele/)

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> [Whether we are Christians or Muslims or nationalists or agnostics or atheists, we must first learn to forget our differences. If we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/malcolm-x/whether-we-are-christians-or-muslims-or-nationalists-or-agnostics-or/)

[Malcolm X](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/malcolm-x/)

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> [“In a much quoted passage in his inaugural address, President Kennedy said, "Ask not what your country can do for you --…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milton-friedman/in-a-much-quoted-passage-in-his-inaugural-address-president-kennedy/)

[Milton Friedman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/milton-friedman/)

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> [“American DEWAR FAMILY Cameron Dewar Ursula “Beep” Dewar, his sister Woody Dewar, his father Bella Dewar, his mother PESHKOV-JAKES FAMILY George Jakes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ken-follett/american-dewar-family-cameron-dewar-ursula-beep-dewar-his-sister/)

[Ken Follett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ken-follett/)

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> [“On Monday morning, she called me into her bedroom. Her dark hair was tousled, her light robe very feminine against the soft…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-b-west/on-monday-morning-she-called-me-into-her-bedroom-her-dark-hair-was/)

[J.B. West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-b-west/)

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> [“who view the CIA as complicit in Kennedy’s assassination point to the CIA’s role in covert operations in Vietnam as the reason…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-e-salla/who-view-the-cia-as-complicit-in-kennedy-s-assassination-point-to-the/)

[Michael E. Salla](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-e-salla/)

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> [“The United States became engaged in hostilities with North Vietnam on November 1, 1955, when President Eisenhower deployed the Military Assistance Advisory…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/captain-hank-bracker-the-exciting-story-of-cuba/the-united-states-became-engaged-in-hostilities-with-north-vietnam-on/)

[Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/captain-hank-bracker-the-exciting-story-of-cuba/)

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> [“President Lyndon Johnson was forced to select a commission to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy and the murder of Lee Harvey…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mae-brussell/president-lyndon-johnson-was-forced-to-select-a-commission-to/)

[Mae Brussell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mae-brussell/)

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> [I remember the day when they sold Brian Deane and Jan Aage Fjortoft. It was like when President Kennedy got shot.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neil-warnock/i-remember-the-day-when-they-sold-brian-deane-and-jan-aage-fjortoft/)

[Neil Warnock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neil-warnock/)

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> [President Kennedy was a voracious reader and was forever coming up with fascinating bits of information.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pierre-salinger/president-kennedy-was-a-voracious-reader-and-was-forever-coming-up/)

[Pierre Salinger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pierre-salinger/)

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                        "text": "To paraphrase president Kennedy's inaugural, the torch has been passed to a new generation of cartoonists and they are doing really interesting stuff, taking the old cliches and breathing new life into them and inventing new ones. This doesn't mean the previous generation of which I'm a charter member isn't doing good stuff but this new material is invigorating everyone.",
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                        "text": "Part of what's unique about climate change, though, is the nature of some of the opposition to action. It's pretty rare that you'll encounter somebody who says the problem you're trying to solve simply doesn't exist. When President Kennedy set us on a course for the moon, there were a number of people who made a serious case that it wouldn't be worth it; it was going to be too expensive, it was going to be too hard, it would take too long. But nobody ignored the science. I don't remember anybody saying that the moon wasn't there or that it was made of cheese.",
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                        "text": "If Lee Harvey Oswald had nothing to do with President Kennedy's assassination and was framed…this otherwise independent and defiant would-be revolutionary, who disliked taking orders from anyone, turned out to be the most willing and cooperative frame-ee in the history of mankind!! Because the evidence of his guilt is so monumental, that he could have just as well gone around with a large sign on his back declaring in bold letters 'I Just Murdered President John F. Kennedy'!!!",
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                        "text": "“As we think about the next 50 years, I remember a story President Kennedy told a week before he was killed. The story was about French Marshal Louis-Hubert-Gonzalve Lyautey, who walked one morning through his garden with his gardener. He stopped at a certain point and asked the gardener to plant a tree there the next morning. The gardener said, “But the tree will not bloom for 100 years.” The marshal replied, “In that case, you had better plant it this afternoon.”",
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                        "text": "Historians will come to their own judgments about President Kennedy. Here is how I choose to remember him. He was an heir to wealth who felt the anguish of the poor. He was an orator of excellence who spoke for the voiceless. He was a son of Harvard who reached out to the sons and daughters of Appalachia. He was a man of special grace who had a special care for the retarded and handicapped. He was a hero of war who fought hardest for peace. He said and proved in word and deed that one man can make a difference.",
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                        "text": "Scientists constantly get clobbered with the idea that we spent 27 billion dollars on the Apollo programs, and are asked \"What more do you want?\" We didn't spend it; it was done for political reasons. ... Apollo was a response to the Bay of Pigs fiasco and to the successful orbital flight of Yuri Gagarin. President Kennedy's objective was not to find out the origin of the moon by the end of the decade; rather it was to put a man on the moon and bring him back, and we did that.",
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                        "text": "“Optimistic, because even though the year of Obama's birth Herbert Lee, a black farmer with nine children, was shot in the head for trying to register black voters, it was also the year the Freedom Rides rocked the South and established a generation of youth leaders. Optimistic, because even though the year of my birth the Klan bombed four little black girls in a Birmingham church and Medgar Evers and President Kennedy were gunned down, it was also the year that established our road map for today - America's dispossessed marching on Washington in unprecedented numbers to demand freedom and articulate our dream.”",
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                        "text": "Whether we are Christians or Muslims or nationalists or agnostics or atheists, we must first learn to forget our differences. If we have differences, let us differ in the closet; when we come out in front, let us not have anything to argue about until we get finished arguing with the man. If the late President Kennedy could get together with Khrushchev and exchange some wheat, we certainly have more in common with each other than Kennedy and Khrushchev had with each other.",
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                        "text": "“In a much quoted passage in his inaugural address, President Kennedy said, \"Ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country.\" It is a striking sign of the temper of our times that the controversy about this passage centered on its origin and not on its content. Neither half of the statement expresses a relation between the citizen and his government that is worthy of the ideals of free men in a free society. The paternalistic \"what your country can do for you\" implies that government is the patron, the citizen the ward, a view that is at odds with the free man's belief in his own responsibility for his own destiny. The organismic, \"what you can do for your country\" implies that government is the master or the deity, the citizen, the servant or the votary. To the free man, the country is the collection of individuals who compose it, not something over and above them. He is proud of a common heritage and loyal to common traditions. But he regards government as a means, an instrumentality, neither a grantor of favors and gifts, nor a master or god to be blindly worshiped and served. He recognizes no national goal except as it is the consensus of the goals that the citizens severally serve. He recognizes no national purpose except as it is the consensus of the purposes for which the citizens severally strive.”",
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                        "text": "“On Monday morning, she called me into her bedroom. Her dark hair was tousled, her light robe very feminine against the soft blue of her bed. Her eyes were full of mischief. “Oh, Mr. West,” she whispered in her beguiling child’s voice. “I’ve gotten myself into something. Can you help me get out of it?” “What can I do?” I asked, wondering who was next in line to be fired. “I’ve invited someone to stay here,” she said, “but now we’ve changed our minds.” She cast a glance in the direction of the President’s bedroom. “Could you help us cook up something so we can get out of having her as a houseguest?” Without waiting for a reply, she rushed on, her request becoming a command in mid-breath. “Would you fix up the Queen’s Room and the Lincoln Room so that it looks like we’re still decorating them, and I’ll show her that our guest rooms are not available.” Her eyes twinkled, imagining the elaborate deception. “The guest rooms will be redecorated immediately,” I said, and almost clicked my heels. I called Bonner Arrington in the carpenter’s shop. “Bring drop-cloths up to the Queen’s Room and Lincoln Bedroom. Roll up the rugs and cover the draperies and chandeliers, and all the furniture,” I instructed. “Oh yes, and bring a stepladder.” I called the paint shop. “I need six paint buckets each for the Queen’s Room and the Lincoln Room. Two of the buckets in each room should be empty—off-white—and I need four or five dirty brushes.” I met the crews on the second floor. “Now proceed to make these two rooms look as if they’re being redecorated,” I directed. “You mean you don’t want us to paint?” said the painters. “No,” I said. “Just make it look as if you are.” The crew had a good time, even though they didn’t know what it was all about. As I brought in the finishing touches, ashtrays filled with cigarette butts, Bonner shook his head. “Mr. West, all I can say is that this place has finally got to you,” he said. That evening the President and Mrs. Kennedy entertained a Princess for dinner upstairs in the President’s Dining Room. Before dinner, though, President Kennedy strolled down to the East Hall with his wife’s guest. He pointed out the bedraped Queen’s Room. “… And you see, this is where you would have spent the night if Jackie hadn’t been redecorating again,” he told the unsuspecting lady. The next morning, Mrs. Kennedy phoned me. “Mr. West, you outdid yourself,” she exclaimed. “The President almost broke up when he saw those ashtrays.”",
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                        "text": "“who view the CIA as complicit in Kennedy’s assassination point to the CIA’s role in covert operations in Vietnam as the reason why the CIA wanted Kennedy’s removal from office. Col. Fletcher Prouty, in his highly documented book, JFK: The CIA, Vietnam and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy, reveals that Kennedy was attempting to end the CIA’s influence over covert operations.[301] Chief among these was the escalating U.S. involvement in Vietnam that Kennedy wanted to end. This he posits is why Kennedy was assassinated. There is, however, a more compelling reason why the CIA wanted Kennedy’s removal from office - the CIA’s role in controlling classified UFO information, and denying access to other government agencies including the office of the President. The assassination of President Kennedy was the direct result of his efforts to gain access to the CIA’s control of classified UFO files. Unknown to Kennedy, a set of secret MJ-12 directives issued by his former CIA Director, Allen Dulles, ruled out any cooperation with Kennedy and his National Security staff on the UFO issue. It was Dulles and another six MJ-12 Group members who sanctioned the directives found in the burned document, including a political assassination directive against non-cooperative officials in the Kennedy administration. This could be applied to Kennedy himself if the official entrusted to carry out the MJ-12 Assassination Directive concluded the President threatened MJ-12 operations.”",
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                        "text": "“The United States became engaged in hostilities with North Vietnam on November 1, 1955, when President Eisenhower deployed the Military Assistance Advisory Group as advisors to train the army of South Vietnam, better known as the Army of the Republic of Vietnam. Things escalated in 1960, which was about the same time that Cuba established diplomatic relations with Vietnam, the communist country at war with the United States. In May of 1961 President Kennedy sent 400 United States Army Special Forces personnel to South Vietnam for the purpose of training South Vietnamese troops. By November of 1963 when he was killed, President Kennedy had increased the number of military personnel from the original 400 to 900 troops for training purposes. Direct U.S. intervention started with the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution in August of 1964. As things heated up, the number of American troops started including combat units and escalated to 16,000 troops, just before Kennedy’s death. During the early hours of April 30, 1975, the fighting ended abruptly, as South Vietnamese President Duong Van Minh delivered an unconditional surrender to the Communists. Between 195,000 to 430,000 South Vietnamese civilians died in the war and 50,000 to 65,000 North Vietnamese civilians died. The Army of the Republic of Vietnam lost somewhere between 171,331 and 220,357 men during the war. The Communist military forces lost approximately 444,000 men. It is estimated that between 200,000 and 300,000 Cambodians died and another 60,000 Laotians died during this war. In all 58,220 U.S. service members were killed. The last two American servicemen to die in Vietnam were killed during the evacuation of Saigon, when their helicopter crashed. After the United States pulled out of South Vietnam, the two sections of the country came together under Communist rule. Vietnam has since become Cuba’s largest trading partner next to China, and the United States has also returned to a normalized trade relationship with Vietnam.”",
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