What's the big deal

The reason I'm famous is because I was first elected to congress in 1946 which was my first hurdle to jump. Then I decided to run for president for the Democrats and on November 8, 1960 I won! I became the 35th US president! Soon I began passing laws to equal rights for African Americans who were terribly mistreated. I also began to work with the Peace Corps. and then I started America in the space race and so we eventually beat the Russians! Then Cuba became a communist country and Russia began putting nuclear weapons in Cuba. The US became frightened so I negotiated with the Russians. They took their nuclear weapons out of Cuba and we took our weapons out of Turkey. And in 1963 I gave a speech against Communism at the Berlin wall.