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John F. Kennedy's Entrepreneurship

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John F. Kennedy is a complex figure. On one hand he was an inspirational figure,motivating Americans to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade. He introduced themost progressive civil rights legislation since Reconstruction. At the same time, he tookadvantage of his enormous popularity by concealing his many unethical workings with the mafiato get elected, and jeopardizing national security by allowing just about anyone he desired intohis inner circle, all for the sake of satisfying his voracious sexual appetite. This paper will uselessons from the Senior Noncommissioned Academy (SNCOA) to explore how Kennedy’sleadership was visionary, yet also fraught with unethical actions, and how Kennedy’s actionsaffect my own leadership in the

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