John Kennedy - 1961-1963
-Elected by the narrow margin of less than 120,000 votes
-Oversees the Bay of Pigs fiasco involving Cuban refugees acting as guerilla insurgents
-Creates the Peace Corps in 1961
-An informal agreement to ban nuclear tests is reached with Khrushchev at the Vienna Summit in 1961
-Manages the Cuban missile crisis in 1962
-Kennedy creates the Alliance for Progress to assist in containing Latin American communism
-Proposes the New Frontier as a way to augment education and end racial discrimination
-He signs executive order 11063, forbidding racial discrimination in federal facilities
-After his death, his initiatives shaped the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the space policy responsible for the moon landing