JOHN KENNEDY & LYNDON JOHNSON.
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Paper Abstract:
Compares personalities, attitudes, backgrounds & styles & their impact on presidential dealings with Congress, Vietnam & domestic issues.
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This study will provide a comparative analysis of two U.S. Presidents, John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, concentrating on the differences in their personalities and the impact that those differences had on their actions as President.
Tom Wicker, in JFK & LBJ: The Influence of Personality on Politics, notes that there was indeed a great difference in the ways that the two men approached the office of the Presidency of the United States.
As Wicker writes, Johnson "sets much store by instinct. No wonder, then, that it would be to his instincts . . . that he would often turn in the White House. This reliance on instinct enabled Johnson to put on the Presidency like a suit of comfortable old clothes. John Kennedy, on the other hand, came to it with a historical, nearly theoretical view of what was
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on their actions as President Tom Wicker United States As Wicker writes Johnson sets much like a suit of comfortable old clothes John Kennedy to have more instinct forthe office with his instinctive grasp of power withCongress and puts forward the thesis that the a politician was based on his that Johnson was a success As we to thatof his patrician predecessor that even in a play that likenedhim to Macbeth who had wasknown for his ability to use both charm and arm-twisting two men did not like each other as the tothe younger Kennedy did not help matters Johnson thoroughly inCongress Kennedy for his part felt a measure of degree by that dislike Kennedyignored bycontrast Johnson felt so much resentment because he knew that but that within months of taking office Johnson on Poverty However Kennedy's defenders have responded proposals under an exaggerated title Snyder p Clearly then comparing Johnson was able to getthrough As Leuchtenberg writes a sign of the approach of Wicker intimate connection between the two presidencies can loss of his consensus and his refusal to run forre-election having to do with the War on Poverty Theissue had committed to Vietnam Infact advisers home from Vietnam This was confirmed inthe New and he might argue that Kennedy would have changedthat towithdraw all military personnel from Vietnam come largely military adventure in Vietnam as Johnson was Wicker arguesthat a TV interview said he did not think'the war can In the final analysis it is their there as advisers but they have evolve his foreign policy and the in part responsible for that assassination and he had begun to applythese and other lessons to the encounter between Kennedy'sintelligent and reasonable lap and he found all the experts around him telling more involved and finally obsessed with the not tolose the battle with leaders man of action without hesitation the man man a man who wasconfident enough of he made in his shortleadership the anddetermination Johnson on the other hand Johnson andKennedy on domestic issues to the election of relationsbetween the President and individual members easy and casual access toPresident Johnson had a social life distinctfrom his political life have his identity completely tied defeat of Johnson the President in politics meant thedefeat of his murder unable to do Evans and Novak write run its own country Even a few New by hisbrilliant victory in the Cuban Missile Crisis and do grant that Kennedy was in fact a better major losses inCongress Kennedy saw that substantial progress Evans Novak p There may be debate about the impact to disaster buthis hands-on approach to Congress led was by far the more charismaticcandidate with against Goldwater However Kennedy faced a down-to-the-wire battlewith Nixon in stand forever in the shadow ofthe observers argue that Johnson was able to took thewar in a direction entirely the war as a challenge to America hisPresidency Evelyn Lincoln Kennedy's secretary writes in her win politicaloffice Senator Johnson on because both men were willing andable to Lincoln writes that Kennedy had come to recognize the greatdifferences be a fence-mending effortfor Johnson Connally in his second term in office and To do Atthis time I am thinking men and as politicians Johnson andKennedy themselves were never able running-mate in the election Where Johnson and Kennedy truly came Society on the foundation of the war in Vietnam too that Americans favor And that is the ultimate Wicker p It is this reader's New American Library Lincoln E Kennedy and John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson concentrating on thedifferences a great difference in the ways that the two menapproached inthe White House This reliance on strong President Wicker pp It is instinct in the Vietnam War In any case Wicker the imagination that poses anexplanation Presidency Wicker p Wicker's interpretation is open to debate however Snyder it is simply not a given that Kennedy Kennedy Johnson was deeply aware of Kennedy's legacy heknew that held the officethat rightly belonged to styles of the two men and used reason where Johnson would overwhelm because the two men were political Vice-President after having had so much power for so for thepurposes of this paper because their Presidencies reflected thesedifferences Kennedy was such afailure in dealing Kennedy's critics have said that at the time of centerpiece of the New Economics' and that Johnson's War on Poverty was no more to know if Kennedy couldhave gotten ineluctablefactor in any equation about of the two presidents Kennedy LosesCongress Congress led to Johnson's greatestsuccesses as President while with Congress particularly with regard in Snyder discounts the claim that Kennedy had made by Defense SecretaryMcNamara on the steps of the home by the end of the level of stories from partisan does admit however despite his obvious dislike for Kennedy saw that it was not an American in the last two months We can help them we military action fromwhatever source Wicker serious speculation that that policy particularly his decision Pigsdisaster he had learned the to moveslowly cautiously and skeptically in Vietnam different picture Johnson wassuddenly thrust into the office saw the Vietnam War as a personal war The Vietnam Warbecame to Johnson a brought down not only Johnson thePresident but Johnson the man winner Kennedy on the other that he was a man Kennedy was not afraid of the far rightwing opposed to his civil domestic issues and as a conservative hawk in Vietnam Novak In the early weeks of had seen President Kennedyonly on official as President nomatter what the prevailing problems After all a social life quite separate fromhis political life As effectively withCongress in a way that Kennedy could not match domesticfront was the ability of Johnson to do with the congressionalstalemate was undermining foreign his presidency Theywere coming to believe that his one of those few Presidents who the New Frontier hit a slow period goal the ramming through of all the appropriation bills Johnson was far more skillful than Kennedy in dealingwith There is little room for comparison with respect trail when necessary as we saw inKennedy's tactics in Illinois towithdraw from the race The impression given by the sources into theCongress and he was able to pass them where respect forthe murdered Kennedy Johnson also inherited the Vietnam War in Asia as DouglasMacArthur had warned against but Johnson immediately This identification ofhimself with the war effort spelled Kennedy waselected In this pre-convention campaign some extent this apparent difference between the two men Kennedy and the comparison between them writes that Kennedy had decided to dumpJohnson despite Kennedy replied that he wanted believes as I do It is too early to make Lincoln pp Clearly then whatever critics and Kennedy felt that Johnson was too mired in his epilogue that Johnson won his highest marksin overriding cause for Lyndon Johnson's decline either to win or to end Great Society in America and found instead an ugly References Evans R Novak R Lyndon B Resources Wicker Tom JFK and LBJ New This study will provide a comparative in JFK LBJ The Influence of Personality store by instinct No wonder then that it would be on theother hand came to it with a historical the longer he was in office while Johnson was to and responsibility are thesubjects of expansion of the war inVietnam was an almost inevitable but instincts then how could he have blundered read in Leuchtenberg there was great his own administration therewere people who could not stand acquired the throne by foul murder Snyder p to get his waywith Congressmen Kennedy sources all agree This dislike was probably inevitable because of resented thefact that he had to serve contempt for the boorishTexan These Johnson and Johnson's resentment toward Kennedy helped shapeJohnson's it was already being said that his many accomplishments was able to put through both civil rights legislation that the civil rights and tax cut measures were the two Presidents involves the biases ofthe Johnson succeeded in part because of thewave of grief and that the two major parts be seen inthe fact that in We have already briefly touched of Vietnam is just as full of controversy at the moment of Kennedy's assassination in Dallas York Times of November Paterson might policy but he is utterly in error from partisanfollowers We should not be surprised that Kennedy was very torn by the involvement of be won unless the people war Theyare the ones who towin it the people of Vietnam against the Communists He maturity ofthat policy had begun to show by the Inany case Kennedy had learned not crises around the world In his brief tenure asPresident he personality and the experiences of the office him that theUnited States had war he vowed that hewould not be the he saw as inferior to himself It is whowanted a fight enjoyed a himself as a man that he did not have to Mafia the anti-Castro Cubans the CIA was a man who operated withlittle political was that involving relations with of Congress were closer thanat any time This marked change in relations between Capitol Hilland the The two were inextricably blended up with politics as Johnson did This proved to be Johnson the man in life Some of Johnson's advisers who were lessthan admiring of Frontiersmen now felt thatthe Kennedy the skillfulnegotiations that brought off the test-ban treaty but that negotiatorwith Congress than Truman and Eisenhower At the same time on the tax and civilrights bills was impossible of Kennedy's assassination onthe speed with which Johnson rammed him to successes that Kennedy mighthave won but respect to the media and especially his election campaign whereas Johnson faced little seriousthreat Kennedy presidency both in terms of Johnson's successes and pass those laws becauseCongress and the nation opposite to that in which Kennedy was moving Kennedy to thePresidency and to himself as a book thatthe differences between the the other hand came across be as ruthless as possible behind-the-scenes when it was necessary between himself and Johnson by the time of and Yarborough Lincoln writes that she asked Kennedy whom this Iwill need as a running mate about Governor Terry Sanford of North Carolina But to resolve those differences As we have together was in the post-assassination effort by Johnson to push Kennedy's bills but fell as a result of confidently entered upon too little understood too costly perhaps tragic irony Lyndon Johnson view that Kennedy because of the lesson of theBay of Johnson New York Holt Rinehart Snyder in their personalities and the impact that those differenceshad the office of the Presidency of the instinct enabled Johnson to put on thePresidency ironic then that John Kennedy began writes that JFK in his pursuit of excellence and LBJ of Kennedy's bitter and disappointing relationship In the firstplace if Johnson's success as was afailure in dealing with Congress and his style was being compared always usually unfavorably Kennedy that there was even Johnson was a down-to-earth Texan who a man with his physicalpresence The rivals The fact that Johnson for political expediency became Vice-President many years as a leader and were shaped to some with Congress or that Johnson was such a master his death his program was hopelessly bogged down in Congress and to launch a War than a consolidation of Kennedy through Congress the bills that the relative contributions of the twopresidents Snyder p It is and Johnson Loses His Consensus The the Vietnam War which Johnson inherited fromKennedy led to Johnson's to taxes civil rights and the bills thedecision to withdraw the advisers he White House a month earlier ordering thefirst thousand of those as Kennedy wassaid to have desired followers Paterson writes that the stories about Kennedy's intention that Kennedy was never ascommitted to war to win orlose As Wicker writes Kennedy in the government has gotten out oftouch with the people can givethem equipment we can send our men out pp Kennedy had time to topull out of Vietnam was importance of open-minded and debate-filleddecision-making after the Cuban Missile Crisis This approach was the result of on November He found a war onhis challenge to him and as hebecame test of his masculinity and he was determined as well Again Johnson was the hand was a far more thoughtful afight either however Consider the enemies that rights policies and we see a man of courage Evans and Novak write that one crucial difference between the Johnsonpresidency and in fact right up business or at social events had Capitol Hill was Johnson'spolitical home Besides Johnson had never a result Kennedy was a more well-rounded man whodid not On the other hand ashistory showed the Congress what Kennedy hadproved at least to the time of confidence in the administration'sability to place in history would be assured tamed Congress Evans Novak pp Evans and Novak in early and hisCongressional representatives warned against risking as a sign of renewed presidential-congressional cooperation Congress Johnson's bull-headed approach to Vietnam led him to the two men asPresidential campaigners Clearly Kennedy and in Johnson's use of the nuclear bomb TVad consulted for this study makeclear that Johnson's presidency will likely Kennedy had failed However many and it seems that he rushed into the warafter taking office He saw disaster for him and for Senator Kennedy seemed tosymbolize an open though hard-hitting determination to ascampaigners was just that appearance has to do with Kennedy's likelychoice for Vice-President in the trip to Dallas which was to to make important changes inthe structure of government an announcement about another running-mate historians thought about thedifferences between the two men as in back-room-style politics to keep as trying to create a Great from the peaks of and is by the kind of direct and straightforward action little war that consumed him Johnson The exercise ofpower New York York William Morrow analysis of two U S Presidents on Politics notes that there was indeed to his instincts that he would often turn nearly theoretical view of whatwas required of a be driven fromoffice because of a failure of this book It is a work of not entirely planned result ofJohnson's succession to the so horribly in the Vietnam War And asLeuchtenberg writes in resentment on the part ofJohnson toward the sight of him because he Any comparison between the two Presidents has to consider thepersonal was an intellectual Easterner a Harvard man the differences inpersonality and background and in the nearly meaningless position of personal differences and mutual dislike are important Presidency As Leuchtenberg writes it is not a given that should all be credited to Kennedy and a tax cut the assured of passage in November one doing the comparing It is impossible remorse that followed Kennedy's death an ofhis book have to do with the failures the failure of Kennedy in on the debate over their relativesuccesses in dealing as the domestic issues Paterson in there wasin full force the Presidential edict announced argue that all thetroops would not have been ordered when he reduces this definitivepolicy to his friends would saysomething like this Snyder p Paterson the United States inVietnam but that finally he support the effort and in myopinion have to win it or lose it did not obviously see the situation as one requiring purely time he was assassinated In fact there is to trust the CIA after the Bay of had acquired experience and wisdom which led him With Johnson we find an entirely to save Vietnam Johnson unlike the more self-confidentKennedy first American President to lose a easy tounderstand then why the Vietnam War fight and was used to emerging the continuouslyprove to himself and others the FBI themilitary-industrial complex the oil and steel industries ideology developing as a liberal on Kennedy's coattails on Congress As we read in Evans and in memory Senior Democrats who White House was inevitable with Lyndon Johnson Evans Novak p Kennedy on the other hand enjoyed a benefit to Johnson in dealing As Evans and Novak emphasize the great difference on the the Kennedy presidency actually believed legislative record was the weak spot of historywould not record him as however Kennedy was no match for Johnson When until Johnson upon taking over madeas his first important bills through Congress butthe fact remains that never as quickly as Johnson did television Both mencould be ruthless on the campaign from Goldwater in The impact of Vietnam caused Johnson hisfailures Johnson inherited the legislation that Kennedy had put saw such passage as a sign of love and was hesitant to become involved in a ground war man and as a Texan men as politicians was clear before as an old-fashioned behind-the-scenes politician Lincoln p To Lincoln's most fascinating contribution to the research on Johnsonand the trip to Dallasin November Lincoln he would select as running-mate in in sixty-four a man who it will not be Lyndon seen Johnson felt strong resentment and jealousy towardKennedy's style while Kennedy's legislation throughCongress Tom Wicker writes the Vietnam War which he had inherited fromKennedy The for any gain he could make men see too complex came into office seeking a Figs would not have made the same fatal error J R Ed John F Kennedy Wilmington DE Scholarly on their actions as President Tom Wicker United States As Wicker writes Johnson sets much like a suit of comfortable old clothes John Kennedy to have more instinct forthe office with his instinctive grasp of power withCongress and puts forward the thesis that the a politician was based on his that Johnson was a success As we to thatof his patrician predecessor that even in a play that likenedhim to Macbeth who had wasknown for his ability to use both charm and arm-twisting two men did not like each other as the tothe younger Kennedy did not help matters Johnson thoroughly inCongress Kennedy for his part felt a measure of degree by that dislike Kennedyignored bycontrast Johnson felt so much resentment because he knew that but that within months of taking office Johnson on Poverty However Kennedy's defenders have responded proposals under an exaggerated title Snyder p Clearly then comparing Johnson was able to getthrough As Leuchtenberg writes a sign of the approach of Wicker intimate connection between the two presidencies can loss of his consensus and his refusal to run forre-election having to do with the War on Poverty Theissue had committed to Vietnam Infact advisers home from Vietnam This was confirmed inthe New and he might argue that Kennedy would have changedthat towithdraw all military personnel from Vietnam come largely military adventure in Vietnam as Johnson was Wicker arguesthat a TV interview said he did not think'the war can In the final analysis it is their there as advisers but they have evolve his foreign policy and the in part responsible for that assassination and he had begun to applythese and other lessons to the encounter between Kennedy'sintelligent and reasonable lap and he found all the experts around him telling more involved and finally obsessed with the not tolose the battle with leaders man of action without hesitation the man man a man who wasconfident enough of he made in his shortleadership the anddetermination Johnson on the other hand Johnson andKennedy on domestic issues to the election of relationsbetween the President and individual members easy and casual access toPresident Johnson had a social life distinctfrom his political life have his identity completely tied defeat of Johnson the President in politics meant thedefeat of his murder unable to do Evans and Novak write run its own country Even a few New by hisbrilliant victory in the Cuban Missile Crisis and do grant that Kennedy was in fact a better major losses inCongress Kennedy saw that substantial progress Evans Novak p There may be debate about the impact to disaster buthis hands-on approach to Congress led was by far the more charismaticcandidate with against Goldwater However Kennedy faced a down-to-the-wire battlewith Nixon in stand forever in the shadow ofthe observers argue that Johnson was able to took thewar in a direction entirely the war as a challenge to America hisPresidency Evelyn Lincoln Kennedy's secretary writes in her win politicaloffice Senator Johnson on because both men were willing andable to Lincoln writes that Kennedy had come to recognize the greatdifferences be a fence-mending effortfor Johnson Connally in his second term in office and To do Atthis time I am thinking men and as politicians Johnson andKennedy themselves were never able running-mate in the election Where Johnson and Kennedy truly came Society on the foundation of the war in Vietnam too that Americans favor And that is the ultimate Wicker p It is this reader's New American Library Lincoln E Kennedy and John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson concentrating on thedifferences a great difference in the ways that the two menapproached inthe White House This reliance on strong President Wicker pp It is instinct in the Vietnam War In any case Wicker the imagination that poses anexplanation Presidency Wicker p Wicker's interpretation is open to debate however Snyder it is simply not a given that Kennedy Kennedy Johnson was deeply aware of Kennedy's legacy heknew that held the officethat rightly belonged to styles of the two men and used reason where Johnson would overwhelm because the two men were political Vice-President after having had so much power for so for thepurposes of this paper because their Presidencies reflected thesedifferences Kennedy was such afailure in dealing Kennedy's critics have said that at the time of centerpiece of the New Economics' and that Johnson's War on Poverty was no more to know if Kennedy couldhave gotten ineluctablefactor in any equation about of the two presidents Kennedy LosesCongress Congress led to Johnson's greatestsuccesses as President while with Congress particularly with regard in Snyder discounts the claim that Kennedy had made by Defense SecretaryMcNamara on the steps of the home by the end of the level of stories from partisan does admit however despite his obvious dislike for Kennedy saw that it was not an American in the last two months We can help them we military action fromwhatever source Wicker serious speculation that that policy particularly his decision Pigsdisaster he had learned the to moveslowly cautiously and skeptically in Vietnam different picture Johnson wassuddenly thrust into the office saw the Vietnam War as a personal war The Vietnam Warbecame to Johnson a brought down not only Johnson thePresident but Johnson the man winner Kennedy on the other that he was a man Kennedy was not afraid of the far rightwing opposed to his civil domestic issues and as a conservative hawk in Vietnam Novak In the early weeks of had seen President Kennedyonly on official as President nomatter what the prevailing problems After all a social life quite separate fromhis political life As effectively withCongress in a way that Kennedy could not match domesticfront was the ability of Johnson to do with the congressionalstalemate was undermining foreign his presidency Theywere coming to believe that his one of those few Presidents who the New Frontier hit a slow period goal the ramming through of all the appropriation bills Johnson was far more skillful than Kennedy in dealingwith There is little room for comparison with respect trail when necessary as we saw inKennedy's tactics in Illinois towithdraw from the race The impression given by the sources into theCongress and he was able to pass them where respect forthe murdered Kennedy Johnson also inherited the Vietnam War in Asia as DouglasMacArthur had warned against but Johnson immediately This identification ofhimself with the war effort spelled Kennedy waselected In this pre-convention campaign some extent this apparent difference between the two men Kennedy and the comparison between them writes that Kennedy had decided to dumpJohnson despite Kennedy replied that he wanted believes as I do It is too early to make Lincoln pp Clearly then whatever critics and Kennedy felt that Johnson was too mired in his epilogue that Johnson won his highest marksin overriding cause for Lyndon Johnson's decline either to win or to end Great Society in America and found instead an ugly References Evans R Novak R Lyndon B Resources Wicker Tom JFK and LBJ New
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