0.1
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Percentage of Kennedy's popular-vote win over Nixon in the 1960 presidential election.
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1
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First president born in the twentieth century.
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1
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Election with first televised presidential debates.
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1
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Only Catholic president.
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1
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Only president to have won a Pulitzer Prize (for Profiles in Courage, a Biography of eight patriotic US Senators).
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2
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Second youngest president at inauguration. (Theodore Roosevelt was sworn in at age 42 after the assassination of President McKinley.)
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2
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Number of Kennedy's children surviving past infancy—Caroline and John.
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3
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Number of Kennedy's grandchildren.
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4
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Fourth US President assassinated in office, after Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, and William McKinley.
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8
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Number of Kennedy's siblings—Joseph Jr., Rosemary, Kathleen, Eunice, Patricia, Robert (RFK), Jean, Edward (Ted).
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11
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Massachusetts District Kennedy represented in the US House of Representatives.
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23
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Number of states won by Kennedy in 1960 presidential election. Nixon won 26, with fewer electoral votes, and unpledged electors in Mississippi voted for Harry Byrd Sr.
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34
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Number of months as Commander in Chief.
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35
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Thirty-fifth president of the United States.
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43
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Youngest elected president, at age 43.
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46
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Age at death.
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50
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States included in presidential election for the first time, as Alaska and Hawaii were granted statehood in the previous year.
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50
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Cents value of Kennedy half-dollar, first minted in 1964 in memoriam.
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56
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Percentage of lowest approval rating—September of 1963.
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83
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Percentage of highest approval rating—March of 1962.
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109
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PT 109—Patrol Torpedo Boat commanded by Lieutenant Kennedy in WWII. He earned a Navy and Marine Corps Medal for rescuing crewmembers after a Japanese destroyer rammed the boat.
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303
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Electoral votes won in 1960 presidential election.
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112,827
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Kennedy's popular-vote win over Nixon.
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