JFK AND THE STRATEGY OF PEACE
John F Kennedy (JFK) was inaugurated as president of the United States nearly sixty years ago today. In the less than three years before he was assassinated in November of 1963, he managed to initiate major changes in America’s foreign policy.
Those changes are documented in books such as “JFK and the Unspeakable” and “Betting on the Africans” and most recently, in an article by one of the foremost scholars on JFK, James Di Eugenio, who just published, “Deconstructing JFK: A Coup d’Etat over Foreign Policy?.” Despite the literature, many in the West do not realize the extent to which JFK was an exception when it came to U.S. foreign policy.
A DEPARTURE
While he was a staunch advocate for capitalism and the “free world” in competition with the Soviet Union and commu...










