Were contempories correct in regarding president Kennedy as the saviour of the western world?

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Were contempories correct in regarding president Kennedy as the saviour of the western world?

The Cuban missile crisis

By Ben Paul

The Cuban missile crisis happened during the cold war between the two super-powers

America and USSR. In october 1962 an American U2 spyplane flying over cuba took photos of missile silos. President John.F. Kennedy then had to decide how to protect

America without causing mutually assured destruction. He decided against an invasion of Cuba and proceeded to blockade Cuba from USSR ships, these ships were carrying parts for the intermediate range missiles to Cuba. There were days of world tension before the blockade worked, and nuclear war was averted.

When Kennedy was appointed as president, he promised the USA that he would protect freedom. People believed in him as he portrayed himself as an heroic figure and was already a war hero of the USA.

His inaugural speach in January 1961 says what sort of president he wanted to be: "Let every nation know, whether it wishes well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe