Compare And Contrast Lincoln And John F Kennedy

In history there have been cases of rulers and kings and leaders that have had many different methods in their style of ruling, the two most popular styles being fear and love. There has been a debate between these two ideologies, many people believe love is better due to leaders like many U.S. presidents like John F. Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln. However, there have been many more examples leaders instilling fear into not only their own people, but also the entire world. By giving the entire world a shock it empowers the nation and the leader. By using fear to lead a nation it gives a sort of respect to the leader’s country as well as giving control over the leader’s own people so a rebellion does not occur. An example of a feared ruler is

John F. Kennedy is one of these exceptions, or appears to be one. In reality, John F. Kennedy used love but did not accomplish much in his time while leading the U.S. When compared to Kim Jong Il, Kennedy did not accomplish much using love. Kim Jong Il managed to bring North Korea back from a very povertistic state that followed the Korean War. Kennedy is remembered by many Americans because of his love, but during his presidency he did not actually accomplish much. According William Manchester, he in fact had blunders, one of those being the ‘Bay of Pigs invasion’, “The Joint Chiefs of Staff unanimously advised the new president that this force, once ashore, would spark a general uprising against the Cuban leader, Fidel Castro. But the Bay of Pigs invasion was a fiasco; every man on the beachhead was either killed or captured. Kennedy assumed “sole responsibility” for the setback.”. Another one of these blunders was his excessive commitment to the Vietnam War, which was one of, if not, the worst wars the U.S. had ever participated in (Manchester). This is many times overshadowed by the fact that he was a charismatic president that died very early in his life. These two things combined caused a Mandela effect (a large amount of people in a community/population collectively misremembering something in the past they all lived through) in the people that were alive and aware during Kennedy's