An entire generation of Americans pinned hopes for a better life on him. He is still an iconic 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 Cuban Missile Crisis and increased American involvement in the Vietnam War. His incredible personal charm, brilliant military biography, and wit won him the enduring love of his compatriots. Under him, the country began to actively explore space, and under him, the foundations of civil equality were laid. His presidency was short-lived, but these thousand days changed America, and with it the whole world.