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intricate, complex
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January 20, 1961 – November 22, 1963
John F. Kennedy, Presidential term
After military service as commander of Motor Torpedo Boats PT-109 and PT-59 during World War II in the South Pacific, Kennedy represented Massachusetts' 11th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1947 to 1953 as a Democrat. Thereafter, he served in the U.S. Senate from 1953 until 1960. Kennedy defeated Vice President and Republican candidate Richard Nixon in the 1960 U.S. presidential election. At 43 years of age, he was the youngest to have been elected to the office,[2][a] the second-youngest President (after Theodore Roosevelt), and the first person born in the 20th century to serve as president.[3] A Catholic, Kennedy was the only non-Protestant president, and was the only president to have won a Pulitzer Prize.[4] Events during his presidency included the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the building of the Berlin Wall, the Space Race, the African-American Civil Rights Movement, and early stages of the Vietnam War. Therein, Kennedy increased the number of military advisers, special operation forces, and helicopters in an effort to curb the spread of communism in South East Asia.[5] The Kennedy administration adopted the policy of the Strategic Hamlet Program which was implemented by the South Vietnamese government. It involved certain forced relocation, village internment, and segregation of rural South Vietnamese from northern and southern communist insurgents.[6]
Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas. Lee Harvey Oswald, arrested that evening, was accused of the crime but was shot and killed by Jack Ruby two days later, before a trial could take place. The FBI and the Warren Commission officially concluded that Oswald was the lone assassin. However, the United States House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) concluded that those investigations were flawed and that Kennedy was probably assassinated as the result of a conspiracy.[7] Kennedy's controversial Department of Defense TFX fighter bomber program led to a Congressional investigation that lasted from 1963 to 1970.[8] Since the 1960s, information concerning Kennedy's private life has come to light. Details of Kennedy's health problems with which he struggled have become better known, especially since the 1990s. Although initially kept secret from the general public, reports of Kennedy's philandering have garnered much press. Kennedy ranks highly in public opinion ratings of U.S. presidents.[9]
Old Hendrik was a bad man, a sinner, and a blight on the Afrikaner - just when I thought Afrikaans was one of my great talents; mind you, linguistically, it is another of my successes...Afrikaans leef voert
Hendrik Verwoerd
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd | |
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| 7th Prime Minister of South Africa | |
| In office 2 September 1958 – 6 September 1966 |
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| Monarch | Elizabeth II (1958–1961) |
| President | Charles Robberts Swart (1961–1966) |
| Governor General | Ernest George Jansen (1958–1959) Charles Robberts Swart (1959–1961) |
| Preceded by | Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom |
| Succeeded by | T. E. Dönges as Acting Prime Minister |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 8 September 1901 Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Died | 6 September 1966 (aged 64) Cape Town, South Africa |
| Resting place | Heroes' Acre, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa |
| Political party | National Party |
| Spouse(s) | Betsie Schoombie |
| Children | 7 |
| Alma mater | University of Stellenbosch |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Religion | Dutch Reformed |
He was Prime Minister during the establishment of the Republic of South Africa in 1961, thereby fulfilling the Afrikaner dream of an independent republic for South Africans. During his tenure as Prime Minister, anti-Apartheid movements such as the African National Congress (ANC) and the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) were banned, and the Rivonia Trial, which prosecuted ANC leaders, was held.
Many major roads, places and facilities in cities and towns of South Africa were named after Verwoerd; in post-apartheid South Africa, most of these references to the creator of apartheid have been renamed. Famous ones include H. F. Verwoerd Airport in Port Elizabeth, renamed Port Elizabeth Airport, the Verwoerd Dam in the Free State, now the Gariep Dam, H. F. Verwoerd Academic Hospital in Pretoria, now Steve Biko Hospital, and the town of Verwoerdburg, now Centurion.
phi·lan·der (f
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intr.v. phi·lan·dered, phi·lan·der·ing, phi·lan·ders
1.
To carry on a sexual affair, especially an extramarital affair, with a
woman one cannot or does not intend to marry. Used of a man.
2. To engage in many love affairs, especially with a frivolous or casual attitude. Used of a man.
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