![]() ![]() In a speech at the University of Maine, he stated, “While maintaining our readiness for war, let us exhaust, every avenue of peace. ![]() Kenned,y 1917–1963,states that “by October 1963, Kennedy had established the sort of rapport with the public that had made Theodore Roosevelt, FDR, Truman in 1948, and Ike so popular.” Kennedy had made great strides in foreign relations by signing the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty between Russia, England, and the United States. Robert Dallek, a leading historian and author of An Unfinished Life: John F. Reelection was far from Kennedy’s only concern in 1963. ![]() As Theodore Sorensen, Kennedy’s advisor and primary speechwriter, notes, “His trip to Texas, like his mission in life, was a journey of reconciliation-to harmonize the warring factions of Texas Democrats, to dispel the myths of the right wing in one of its strongest citadels, and to broaden the base for his own re-election in 1964.” In 1963 Kennedy, as many presidents in their first term, was working and campaigning toward his reelection. ![]() The administration had previously been dealt a severe blow with the failed April 1961 invasion of the Bay of Pigs in Cuba. The Kennedy presidency was not without its challenges, perhaps the greatest being the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962. Kennedy / Shirley Seltzer Cooper / Pastel, 1961 / National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution gift of Ted Cooper ![]()
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