President John F. Kennedy Attends a Luncheon at Hotel María Isabel in Mexico City, 1962. JFK Presidential Library and Museum. From his undergraduate days at Harvard, John Kennedy had a strong ...

if we even have a reasonable belief to think that their presence is adverse to foreign policy, we can deport them. And we should. And these universities like to love them,” Kennedy said.

A World War II veteran who bore the wounds of combat duty in the South Pacific, Kennedy could attest to the human and material costs of defending freedom.