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Sworn in at age 24.
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Given command of PT-109 as a lieutenant.
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Kennedy's older brother, Joe Kennedy Jr., is killed when his Air Force plane explodes
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Kennedy was honorably discharged from the Navy with a rank as lieutenant.
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Elected as a U.S. representative for the 11th Congressional District in Boston. He is re-elected in 1948 and 1950.
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Elected as senator from Massachusetts and re-elected in 1958
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Marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier.
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Loses his bid for the Democratic nomination for vice president
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Caroline Bouvier Kennedy is born at Cornell Medical Center, New York
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Announces his candidacy for president of the United States
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gave financial and technical aid to depressed regions by luring new industries to areas of regional unemployment and expanding industries already there
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At age 43, takes the oath of office to become the 35th president of the United States.
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Kennedy appointed a 25 member Ad Hoc committee on Public Welfare with members from both public welfare and private social work. They were charged to recommend methods leading to adequate financial assistance, efficent administration, and organization of public assistance offices, research into the cause of dependancy and family breakdown, and provision of rehabillitation services by trained personel.
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Kennedy appointed the first Presidential Commission on the status of women, chaired by Eleanor Roosevelt. The commission deplored the trend to blame women for juvenile deliquency and confirmed in 1966 that the EEOC should take action against sex discrimination.
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It researched the social causes of deliquency and developed innovative empowerment programs such as Mobilization for Youth (MFY), on the lower East side of New York City
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advances in public assistance, extension of unemployment insurance and liberalized OASI benefits, an increased minimus wage and an increase in AFDC benefits, a new housing act to create more jobs in construction, training bills, and financial and technical aid for depressed regions.
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Kennedy appointed a mental health panel that presented the mental health act to congress in 1963. Though it was not passed until after his death because of resistance from the American Medical Association, the act provided construction of mental retardation facilities and community mental health centers, comprehensive services, and education and consultation to upgrade the nations services.
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designed to deal with institutional causesof unemployment by training people for better jobs.
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To stimulate consumer buying and corporate investment, he cut personal and corporate income takes.
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Kennedy sends the Alabama National Guard to the Universoty of Alabama to protect two African American students who won a court order to attend the University.
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Kennedy began to compile a civil rights bill that guaranteed equal accomodations and gave the attourney general power to file suits to enforce the 14th and 15th ammendments.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy is shot at 12:30 p.m. while riding in an open-top limousine in a motorcade through downtown Dallas. He is pronounced dead at 1 p.m. at Parkland Memorial Hospital.
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Johnson incorporated both the funding and the ideals of the MDTA into the Title I and IV programs of the Economic Opportunity Act
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the 1961 White House conference on aging funded community training services and planning, established state agencies on aging, support research and demonstration projects to studt the status of the elderly, and provide grants for community services. The bill wasn't passed until 1965, after Kennedy's death.