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"We will always remember that there was once a city that existed only a short, bright moment, and it was called Camelot." This line from the musical "Camelot", which her deceased husband loved very much, Jacqueline Kennedy quoted in an interview in December 1963. Shortly before her husband was killed in front of a stunned crowd. Since that day, John F. Kennedy's presidential term of about a thousand days has become a national legend.

On January 20, 1961, John Fitzgerald Kennedy took the oath, becoming the 35th president of the United States, moreover the youngest (he was 43 years old) and also a Catholic at the head of the Protestant country (an unheard of thing). After the inauguration, he delivered a speech, the main message of which fell into the hearts of voters: "Do not ask what your country can do for you, but ask what you can do for your country." In a world governed by elderly politicians such as Nikita Khrushchev (66 years old), Harold McMillan (66), Charles de Gaulle (70 years) and Conrad Adenauer (85 years old), the young Kennedy personified the future. In his speech, he self-confidently stated that "the torch was passed on to a new generation of Americans."

Round table in the White House

That it was said seriously, Kennedy proved during the formation of the government. Not only relatively young ministers appeared in the White House - for example, his brother Robert Kennedy - but also Republicans Robert McNamara and Douglas Dillon. Like knights around the Round Table, he gathered around him the best heads of the country. He also owed his time to the wife of Jacqueline, with whom they were married back in 1953. After the victory of her husband in the elections, she led the restoration of the White House, invited the largest American artists and artists and organized state banquets in an aristocratic manner. Kennedy himself, who in childhood was a painful child and often reread the legend of Arthur, called the transformed White House by Camelot. It is not hard to guess what role he played in himself.

The role of the brilliant hero was intended for him by Father Joseph Kennedy. Initially, the elder brother of John - Joseph was prepared for the post of president, but he died in 1944, making a combat sortie. John, being the commander of a torpedo boat, managed to save his comrades after a collision with a Japanese ship and returned home as a hero. Thus, the task of implementing the ambitious plans of his father was transferred to him: to win the White House. Since the nomination in the elections to the House of Representatives and before the victory in the presidential race, Kennedy has not lost anywhere, not least thanks to the money and connections of his father. Presidential elections went down in history: although Kennedy received 303 votes out of 537 electors, in absolute terms, its advantage was only 118,574 votes. His political promises, which became part of the electoral program, he fulfilled only 1036 days in power.

The blows of fate

The myth of the Kennedy clan includes not only the brilliant rise and tragic end of John Kennedy, but also the numerous blows of fate that comprehended this influential family in recent decades, attracting everyone's attention to it. In addition to Joseph's brother, who died in the war, in 1948, John F. Kennedy lost his sister, Catherine, who was crashed in a plane crash at the age of 28. June 5, 1968 Robert Kennedy, at 42, considered a promising candidate for president, was the victim of an assassination attempt in Los Angeles. July 19, 1969 Edward Kennedy was in a car accident in which his companion, Mary Jo Kopechne, died. The subsequent investigation of the road accident made him withdraw his candidacy in the 1972 elections.

It was not the last blow for the Kennedy clan. Robert's son David died of a drug overdose at a hotel in Palm Beach, his brother Michael died in 1997, skiing in Colorado. John F. Kennedy Jr., along with his wife, Carolyn Besset-Kennedy, and her sister Lauren, crashed on July 17, 1999 in a plane crash off the coast of Martas-Vinyard. In 2002, Michael Skeikel, nephew of Robert Ethel Kennedy's widow, was found guilty of murdering a neighbor in 1975 and sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment. According to the verdict, at the age of 15 he killed a peer with a golf club. On August 25, 2009, at the age of 77, Edward, the last of the three Kennedy brothers, died from a brain tumor. But the myth surrounding the family since the 1960s, is still alive.