Kennedy's administration included high tensions with communist states in the Cold War. As a result, he increased the number of American military advisers in South Vietnam. The Strategic Hamlet Program began in Vietnam during his presidency. In April 1961, he authorized an attempt to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro in the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion. In November 1961, he authorized Operation Mongoose, also aimed at removing the communists from power in Cuba. He rejected Operation Northwoods in March 1962, but his administration continued to plan for an invasion of Cuba in the summer of 1962. The following October, U.S. spy planes discovered Soviet missile bases had been deployed in Cuba. The resulting period of tensions, termed the Cuban Missile Crisis, nearly resulted in the breakout of a global thermonuclear conflict. He also signed the first nuclear weapons treaty in October 1963. Kennedy presided over the establishment of the Peace Corps, Alliance for Progress with Latin America, and the continuation of the Apollo program with the goal of landing a man on the Moon before 1970. He also supported the civil rights movement but was only somewhat successful in passing his New Frontier domestic policies.

Kennedy co-sponsored the Green New Deal, and supports aggressive action to reduce carbon emissions, enforce pollution control standards, protect public lands from fossil fuel extraction, promote clean energy alternatives to pipelines and compressor stations, and invest in related infrastructure and scientific research. He supports strict fuel efficiency standards and the elimination of exemptions to the Clean Air Act, and opposed the United States' withdrawal from the Paris Agreement under President Donald Trump. [67] Racial inequality [ edit ] Ex-Congressman Sure of Mafia Involvement in Assassination". The Star Press. January 27, 1992. p.6. Archived from the original on December 24, 2019 – via Newspapers.com. See also: Massachusetts's 4th congressional district election, 2012 Kennedy (left) campaigning with Elizabeth Warren (center), and his predecessor Barney Frank (right), 2012 Boston Pride Parade Kennedy helped raise funds in 2016 for the defeat of Question 4 to legalize cannabis for recreational use in Massachusetts. [62] [63] He also voted against the Rohrabacher–Farr amendment in 2015 which limits the enforcement of federal law in states that have legalized medical cannabis. [62] [64] In November 2018 he changed his stance towards cannabis and endorsed its legalization at the federal level, however. [65] In January 2020 he co-sponsored a bill to federally legalize cannabis known as the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE) Act. [66] Climate change [ edit ] The committee also found a connection between Lee Harvey Oswald and David Ferrie. [30] The committee indicated that Lee Harvey Oswald and David Ferrie knew each other since 1955 and their actions in the civil air patrol. [30]Seelye, Katharine Q. (January 30, 2018). "Joseph P. Kennedy III Gives Democratic Response to State of the Union". The New York Times– via NYTimes.com. John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th President of the United States". American Heraldry Society. Archived from the original on August 3, 2016 . Retrieved October 27, 2009. Buell, Spencer (July 30, 2020). "In the Endorsement Battle with Joe Kennedy, Ed Markey Is Winning". Boston magazine . Retrieved March 27, 2022.

Bender, Bryan (May 28, 2013). "Kennedy impressed by US efforts to prepare Afghans". The Boston Globe. And there are other odd things about The House of Kennedy. The book purports to be the "true story" of the Kennedy family, from paterfamilias millionaire Joe Kennedy to his tragic trio of oldest sons, Joe Jr (killed in action during World War II), John (slain as president in 1963), and Bobby (slain as presidential candidate in 1968) to surviving son, Senator Edward Kennedy and such famous next-generation scions as John Kennedy Junior.The committee believes, on the basis of the evidence available to it, that Kennedy was probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy. The committee was unable to identify the other gunmen or the extent of the conspiracy.

In These Times (July 26, 2013). "Why Did 83 Democrats Vote to Continue NSA Surveillance?". Archived from the original on January 16, 2020 . Retrieved July 27, 2013. Patterson has thoroughly researched his subject to give readers the familiar and not-so-familiar stories that give you a complete picture of the Kennedy lore. And somehow, through his trademark tendency towards writing brief chapters, has not lost the necessary depth to tell the triumphant and tragic story of the Kennedy family. Kennedy married health policy lawyer [71] Lauren Anne Birchfield, a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles and a finalist for the Rhodes Scholarship, in Corona del Mar, California, on December 1, 2012. [72] The couple met in Harvard Law School, where they took a class taught by future U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren. [73] On December 29, 2015, Birchfield gave birth to their daughter, Eleanor. [74] On December 20, 2017, Kennedy announced the birth of their second child, a son, named James. [75] The family lives in Newton, Massachusetts. [76] a b Markey Holds Off Joseph Kennedy in Massachusetts Senate Race, New York Times, Jonathan Martin, September 1, 2020. Retrieved September 2, 2020.Larry M. Sturdivan, "The JFK myths: a scientific investigation of the Kennedy assassination," Paragon House, September 15, 2005, pg. 77 President Biden Appoints Members to President's Commission on White House Fellowships". The White House. June 4, 2021. a b c d The Select Committee of Assassinations of US House Representatives, Volume X – Anti castro activities and organization Lee Harvey Oswald in New Orleans – CIA Plots against Castro – Rose Cheramie (1979). Current Section: XIII. 544 Camp Street and Related Events (1 firsted.). Washington: US Government Printing. pp.126–130. Rep. Joe Kennedy III to deliver Democratic response to State of the Union" . Retrieved January 26, 2018.