Politician/Eleanor Kennedy

Eleanor Grace Kennedy (née Linton, born January 26, 1919) was an American Politician who served as the 38th President of the United States from 1972 until her assassination in 1981 near the start of her third term as President. The Majority of work for 8 years were focusing on the Infrastructure and reducing road congestion, this was achieved in 1977 when road congestion went down from 44% to 37.9%. She served as president at the height of the Third World War which was an U.S victory. A Democrat Eleanor served in both cambers of congress as Senator and House Representative from California.

For the Presidential Election in 1952 Kennedy announced her support for Democratic Presidential Candidate Adlai Stevenson II as she strongly disagreed with the policies of Dwight D. Eisenhower and that he choose to become a Republican even though the late President Harry S Truman tried to convince him to run as a Democrat.

Eleanor was apart of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Inquiry in May 1960 when the U-2 incident occurred which led to Captain Powers imprisonment, this incident was an embarrassment to the US and Eleanor stated that -"The Government should be ashamed of themselves of telling lies over and over again"

Eleanor strongly supported John F. Kennedy in the 1960 Presidential Election, She and her husband who were the cousin to John Kennedy joined his campaign in California in October of 1960. When Kennedy was brutally assassinated in 1963 Eleanor gave out a statement: "What we have seen in Dallas today cannot be expressed, Jack Kennedy will always be remembered as a charismatic and outgoing person. We must do everything in our power to find the people behind this horrendous act against our Nation, I'd like to express my deep sorrow to the first lady Jaqueline and close family to Jack.'"

Early Life, Early Career
Linton was born in Sacramento, California to her two loving parents, Emma and Arthur Linton. She grew up outside of the big town in her parents Summer Residence outside of Sacramento City. Eleanor had a great childhood with the support from her parents she was very comfortable about herself, she got interested in politics one day when her parents were talking about Franklin D. Roosevelt getting elected in 1933, Eleanor admired and saw Roosevelt as her role model decided that she would become President one day.

In 1940 at the age of 21 she graduated top of her class from University of California, Irvine School of Law.

After she graduated she started to work as a Law Clerk at Sacramento Superior Court from 1941 until 1948, where she also met her future husband Nelson Kennedy.

U.S House Representative (CA-9)
In 1949 U.S Representative Ashley Villanueva of California 9th district announced that she wouldn't run for another term as Representative, Eleanor Kennedy announced that she would run later that year. The Primary was a Non-Partisan Primary and both who qualifies for the General Election were Democrats, Nicole Cardena and Eleanor Kennedy.

House of Representatives (CA - 9), 1950
Eleanor Linton - Winner

Votes: 138,238

Percent: 53.1%

Nicole Cardena

Votes: 122,277

Percent: 46.9%

Eleanor Kennedy got sworn in January 3, 1951 and officially joined the 82nd United States Congress.

Time in the House
Kennedy's time in the House were very crucial years for her political career as she only in a year had grown in the House. She was known for being very intelligent and fears, the republicans felt threaten by her and none was brave enough to debate her on floor debates. Many democrats were ready to vote for her as Speaker after the 1952 election that were just around the coroner but little did they know what would happen.

Re-election, 1952
Eleanor Kennedy had the year before announced that she would seek another term as U.S Representative. In the 1952 primary she faced 1 democrat, 2 republicans and 1 independents. The one democrat who ran against Kennedy was Howard Walberg who were the son of the current Governor of California Richard Walberg. Eleanor and Howard won the Primary and the General election was coming up.

House of Representatives (CA - 9), 1952
Howard Walberg - Winner

Votes: 153,916

Percent: 51.1%

Eleanor Linton - Incumbent

Votes: 147,463

Percent: 48.9%

The election was a sudden surprise to everyone in the House, the newly rising star of the House lost her re-election campaign. Some people even took as far to say that Governor Walberg rigged the election, Eleanor accepted the results and congratulated Howard Walberg.

After the Election
After the House Election Eleanor took a short break from running for anything else, there was a poll taken by Californians on who they'd like as they're next Governor Eleanor Kennedy was top on that poll, even though getting pressured to run for Governor she decline and started to work for the Democratic Campaign Committee until that she announced her bid for the Senate Election of 1956.

Senate Election, 1956
Eleanor Linton - Winner

Votes: 13,919,795

Percent: 91.5%

Chip Roman

Votes: 1,300,275

Percent: 8.5%

Eleanor Kennedy got sworn in January 3, 1957 and officially joined the 85th United States Congress. In 1959 after serving little more than two years as Senator, the democrats in the Senate voted to make Kennedy the next Democratic Leader in the Senate making her The Senate Minority Leader (The Republicans had a Majority of 54).

Senate Election
Eleanor Kennedy - Incumbent - Winner

Votes: 10,843,145

Percent: 94.8%

Alonso Razo

Votes: 591,838

Percent: 5.2%

After this election Eleanor got voted to become the Senate Majority Leader, a role she has until this day.

Presidential Run
People had gather around the Residence of Eleanor Kennedy in the evening of 14 October 1971 as she had something very important and exciting news, she came up to the podium and gave the crowd a big smile before going: "Thank you everyone for being here, I'd like to thank my colleagues from the congress for being here, and my dear friend Senator Valentina Mejia of New York. Our nation grows everyday, people from all over the world comes to America to start a new life. Our industry is growing in rapid speed and of course this something positive but we must not ignore the people of the top who doesn't want to share their piece, they earn 10 times more than the average worker and this is not acceptable. I wanna live in an America where everyone has the same opportunity to strive, I wanna live in an America where it doesn't matter if you're black, white, orange or green. I am standing here today for the same reason John F. Kennedy stood here for nearly 11 years ago to declare that I will be running as a Candidate for President of the United States of America."The crowd started to cheer as the smile of Eleanor kept getting bigger, her husband and her 13 year old son Isaac came up to the stage and began to hug Eleanor and then began to wave at the crowd as the campaign song was playing.

Democratic Presidential Primary
In the Democratic Primary Kennedy faced Gene Balsinger U.S Senator from Nevada, Barbara Abrahams U.S Senator from California, Buck Ye Governor of Maryland,                   Terrell Merriam Governor of Virginia, Hugo Bedoya Mayor of Columbus Ohio and lastly Sophia Rutter Mayor of Alexandria, Virginia.

Eleanor was leading in both the Iowa and New Hampshire caucus polls by 27% being followed by Virginia Governor Terrell Merriam at 18%. Abrahams: 13%, Balsinger: 10%, Ye: 9%, Bedoya: 8%, Rutter: 8%.

See the whole Primary results here: 1972 Democratic Presidential Primary

Kennedy became the Democratic Candidate and also won the 1972 Presidential Election.

Presidency (1973-1981)
Eleanor Kennedy got sworn in January 3, 1972 at the Capitol in Washington D.C. Her Inauguration Speech she stated that she would rebuild America and make America accessible for everyone and not only for the rich. She expressed that anybody who comes to America must have the same chance as somebody who has been born in the country. She promised that her government would not levy any taxes on low-income earners, and that under her leadership, the economy would grow, and that the United States would see it's greatest economic prosperity in centuries.

One of her first executive order when she became President was to reform the flat income tax that the previous administration had implemented and change it to a normal income tax.

The tension in Europe had escalated in 1975 when the U.S.S.R invaded Poland. France, The United Kingdom, Sweden, Finland, Norway and nearly all Europe had declared war against Russia. Russia who were in the Axis had China and all the other Communist countries on it's side, World War 3 had begun.

President Kennedy announced that The US would be neutral in the war but this quickly changed as China began to invade Japan who was a US Ally, Eleanor had no other choice than to declare war against China to defend Japan. The War took a big toll to the President who nearly didn't sleep at all.

The War ended in October of 1979 when U.S, French and British troops invaded Moscow and the U.S.S.R surrendered. In November the same year the Allies had a Conference at the UN headquarters in New York where they discussed peace and how they would not let anything like this ever happen again, President Eleanor Kennedy made a Victory speech on the TV the same day and established that yet again the US had helped the world to restore it's peace.

President Kennedy met a very high approval rating after the war, there weren't any civilian causalities on the American side and the public thought that the President had handled the crisis very good.

Due to the 1980 Presidential Election were around the corner the President use Emergency Power to serve a another term, the first president to do so since Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940 before 22nd was implemented. The President was met with some critic but the public were mostly happy.

Kennedy won the 1980 election by a landslide, taking Texas, Florida, Georgia. She got sworn for her third term in 1981.

Main Article: Assassination of Eleanor Kennedy
While onboard the Airforce one travelling back from a UN summit in Tokyo in February 17, 1981. Air Force One radar shows two Military jets behind the plane, the Air Force one communication center tried to reach the jets to warm them that they were too close to the Air Force One, but it was just silent. Before anyone could do anything the jets started to fire missiles at the Air Force one making the plane go in half. Eleanor Kennedy who was in her Office onboard tried to hold to anything she could reach but she got thrown out of the plane, dying instantly because of lack of air.

Vice President Valentina Mejia got sworn in as the 39th President of the United States, before the public got the news of the President had been killed.

Private Life
Eleanor Kennedy lived in Washington D.C with her family, Her Husband Nelson Kennedy previously served as the 32nd Governor of California from 1963 to 1975. In October 1957 the couple welcomed their first child Isaac W. Kennedy who is currently 22 years old.