His father was never President. SMFHYou're so full of shit you squeak going into a turn.
JFK vs. the Military
President Kennedy faced a foe more relentless than Khrushchev, just across the Potomac: the bellicose Joint Chiefs of Staff argued for the deployment of nuclear weapons and kept pressing to invade Cuba. A presidential historian reveals that Kennedy's success in fending them off may have been his most consequential victory.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/08/jfk-vs-the-military/309496/