The 35th President of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy is mainly remembered today (apart from his tragic death) for his unparalleled rhetorical skills and his charismatic personality. He probably embodies the image of the perfect president in the sense of an attractive, youthful yet tough, charming yet serious-minded man who was also an author of history books. By all accounts, including his own, throughout his life he always found it natural and easy to charm those around him with his personality; his personal magnetism was extraordinary. This served him very well as a politician, especially when giving speeches and talking to the press. His most memorable speeches as president combined the themes of a "twilight time" of threat from global communism and loss of will in the US with the optimistic vision that those were all challenges that could be faced. Interestingly, what people tend to remember from those speeches tends to be very different from ...
An international resource on Socionics, a theory of personality type.