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研究生综合英语Multiple English for Postgraduates 高级英语阅读 吴德本　张万义 Unit 2 What Makes a Leader Part I Pre-reading tasks 1). Background Information John Fitzgerald Kennedy He was born on May 29, 1917 in Brookline, Massachusetts. Young Kennedy, after a Kennedy short spell at the London School of Economics and Princeton, entered Harvard. In 1940 he graduated from Harvard cum laude. Kennedy missed being nominated for vice-president by a few votes in 1956. when he decided to run for president in 1960, his name was widely known. Kennedy’s four Kennedy enthusiastically as their open car passed through the streets. Suddenly, at 12:30 in the afternoon, an assassin fired several shots, striking the president twice, in the base of the neck and the head. The president was rushed to Parkland Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead about a half hour later. The Great Depression ($87 billion in 1929 to $41 billion in 1933); the jobless went up to 15 million out of a total labor force of 45 million; over 5,500 banks failed; misery and personal suffering were widespread. Franklin D. Roosevelt was chosen to get American out of the Depression. Particularly, his New Deal and he did help overcome the most serious economic crisis John Kennedy and His Wife The Great Depression Pear Harbor ---The End--- Thank You * * . television debates with Republic candidate, Richard M. Nixon, were a highlight of 1960 campaign. He became the master of the White House as the 35th President of the United States. In November 1963, President Kennedy journeyed to Texas for a speech-making tour. In Dallas on November 22, he and his wife were cheered The Great Depression It means American economic period of drastic decline in the national economy, characterized by decreasing business activity, falling prices, and unemployment. From 1929 to 1932, America suffered the Great Depression, the stock market crash was the beginning of the depression. GNP shrank by more than a half Pear Harbor An inlet on