" was demonstrated much more swiftly by Nixon but with much less concern for the good of the country or the office of President, Nixon's use of legislative and administrative power did him more harm than good (Doyle,136). When you look at President Kennedy’s administrative accomplishments, you can easily point out the numerous accomplishments without much downfall in his swift governing style. Kennedy’s personal skeletons are those that became public and caused the Presidents image to become a bit lackluster. On the other hand, Nixon’s downfalls seem to overshadow the good that he actually accomplished. Withdrawing troops from Vietnam and his policy adjustments that benefited the relations between the United States and foreign countries are completely forgotten when things like the Watergate scandal are brought into focus. Nixon’s information that he gathered from others was almost always seemingly in a scandalous nature and for the sole reason of committing crimes from the White House and his executive offices. As you can tell in the book, most people who worked for Nixon thought of a lot of his ideas as absurd and orders handed down by the President were not followed through. President Kennedy got his information from the most important people that he could get valid information from that related directly to the conflict at hand. Even though Kennedy may be blamed for not being a very hard working President, at least he worked more in the direction of the best interest of the people in this country, and not mainly for his own personal benefit nor did he devote and almost an entire Presidency to lies, public scandal and humiliation....
