John Fitzgerald Kennedy was the living embodiment of the American dream. Born to wealth and prominence. he. nevertheless. became the champion of the poor and downtrodden. Of Irish immigrant ancestry. he fused within his own personality those characteristics for which Americans have become world famous. while giving voice and form to the yearnings of all his countrymen regardless of their backgrounds. As a young man in England. he witnessed firsthand the ravages upon the human spirit of tyranny and oppression. even as the first rumblings of war swept through Europe. Later. he went on to experience for himself the awful agonies of combat and its aftermath while fighting in the South Pacific.
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