A whole generation of Americans associated with him hopes for a better life. He is still a cult figure today: John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the youngest, thirty-fifth President of the United States He had to make difficult foreign policy decisions related to the Caribbean crisis and the strengthening of American intervention in the Vietnam War. Incredible personal charm, brilliant combat biography, wit won him the enduring love of his compatriots. Under him, the country began to actively explore space, it laid the foundations of civil equality. His presidency was granted a short term, but this thousand days changed America, and with it the whole world.