My work continues through others

"You are a big inspiration for me I learned how to run for office and make public speeches from you. I agree with the way you handled the Cuban Missile Crisis. President Kennedy, you admitted to lack of missile gap unlike Eisenhower. You said that the US was way ahead of the Soviets in the developing missiles. This made Khrushchev (The Soviet leader)look bad. And this angers Cuba a lot especially, after our failed attempt with the Bay of Pigs. Castro starts to buddy up with the Soviets a lot more. Khrushchev doesn't want to see the US take Cuba down. So he offers to arm Castro with weapons. The US had the Soviet Union surrounded with missile sites and the Soviets wanted at least one site near the US. If they could get Cuba they would have their "one place". A U2 planes discovered installation sites being built in Cuba by the soviets. You called together the National Security Council, DOD, etc. to discuss what to do with this. You came up with three options. 1)Invade Cuba-Bay of pigs was a failure. 2) Air Strike- were afraid if we did do that, they would shoot our planes 3) Leave it alone. No one was really satisfied with those three option so we decided to Quarantine AKA Blockade Cuba. The Cuban Missile Crisis scared everyone to death; we were on the verge of nuclear war. In 1963 the US and the Soviet Union Signed a nuclear Test Ban Treaty which banned the testing of atomic weapons. 

What I like about your work was the fact that you were very committed to your job, you went out and got advise from your brother Bobby, your father the former Ambassador, your wife, and former President's. You saw the future with you as President and you kept your head forward to the future. 

What is still relevant isn't civil rights because you didn't really do much for civil rights except during the end of Segregation (The Little Rock Nine) and the drafting of the Civil Rights act of 1964 which passed under Lyndon Johnson after your assassination who took credit for it. Putting a man on the moon before the decade was out challenged us to win the race to space, and today it has also challenged us once again to put a man on Mars before this decade is out. "

I hope I help you,

Christopher McCowan

P.S A great fan sent me this letter as a symbol of his friendship. To him I  thank him for all his time and dedication.