More than just some exact purpose, it’s the taste of politics, personal ambitions and the desire to watch the country grow exercise with dignity the responsability coming from its properity and power, that explains the will of John Fitzgerald Kennedy to become president.
Author of several succes books, with an exceptionnal assimilation capacity, he feels perfectley comfortable among intellectuals and specialists of different subjects, and impresses them with his curiosity and by his conscience of his own limits. The team he gatters around hi mis devoted and brilliant.
For the american public, the image of this young and cheerful man, having proved several times his physical courage, calling his country to make sacrifices to find pride and balance, probably has more importance than the mesures that he recommend in vain, or the crisis he deals with. But, outside his voluntarist conception of power and presidency, Kennedy, elected at a small minority, did he know with precision what he wanted ?
