the personalities of the kennedy administration Flashcards
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Members
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Bobby Kennedy
Bundy
LBJ
Mcnamara
Dean Rusk
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bobby kennedy
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Attorney General - engaged with civil rights
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LBJ
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24 years in congress - had a far better grasp of congressional politics than anyone else in kennedys cabinet
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Mcnamara
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He was defence secretary and played an important part in US policy-making over vietnam that some have called the vietnam war ‘Mcnamara’s war’ Dean Rusk was secretary of state, who gave JFK personal control over foreign policy
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the best and the brightest
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Kennedy’s men had little experience in government. Johnson was a legislative expert but JFK did not want to be seen as reliant on his expertise
