Abstract

Kennedy: Profile of a Technician

The article presents information on the U.S. President John F. Kennedy. President Kennedy has been an activist, displaying his managerial and manipulation techniques in almost every facet of government. As a result, the public knows a lot about the President's techniques of leadership and yet paradoxically little about the direction in which he is moving or how he will act when obstacles confront him. Normally Presidents, after two years in office, become more or less stereotyped in the public mind, it has always been fairly clear how they would act in any given situation. It is uniquely different today as Kennedy enters his third year in office. It should be possible, but it isn't, to say that he is a strong President, or that he is developing into one, or perhaps, that he is an energetic President who applies his energies unpredictably.