Managing America Beyond JFK “Kennedy and Leadership in America”

This book is a leadership account of what John F. Kennedy did at crucial points or events of his three years as President

In this account of what he says and what is said to him, is taken from recordings, documents, journals, notes, and interviews. What really happened in the Oval Office.

In the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library at Columbia Point in Boston, Massachusetts, are stored thousands of documents related to the JFK’s presidential years. They point out, to a great degree, that JFK left his personal imprint on everything he did, the White House was definitely run in the "Kennedy style."

This started with the election in 1960.

On November 8, 1960, Kennedy received 34,226,731 votes to 34,108,157 for Nixon, winning an Electoral College majority of 303 to 219.

Over the next three years, he often stuck a slip of paper into his pocket to remind himself of that tiny popular vote margin: 118,574 votes

Who was this man?

And in the paper work that flowed directly from JFK’s office, is it possible to see the imprint of his will and his personality?

Secondly how did the policy makers in his administration mirror his leadership?

The anticipation is that the memos, notes, and letters, can come one step closer to answering the questions of the leadership of JFK himself.

There were, as it was analyzed by Walter Lippmann, a syndicated columnist, only three themes in JFK’s general election campaign: "The military power of the United States is falling behind that of the Soviet Union: we are on the wrong end of a missile gap. The American economy is stagnating: we are falling behind the Soviet Union and behind the leading industrial nations of Western Europe in our rate of growth. The United States is failing to modernize itself: the public services, education, health, rebuilding of the cities, transportation, and the like, are not keeping up with a rapidly growing urbanized population."