In 1945 the Hearst newspapers hired Kennedy to cover the United Nations preliminary conference in San Francisco. There he first saw Russian diplomats in action. He was pessimistic. He covered the British elections that year then decided that he had enough of Journalism he did not know whether he would like politics but he decided to try it.

In 1946 he ran for congress as a democrat in a Boston district. Though he did not live there Kennedy, by hard campaigning defeated a large filed of rivals, he was reelected twice. Then he tried for election to the United States senate against the Republican Henry Cabot Lodge who was supposed to be unbeatable in Massachusetts. On September 12^th 1953 Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier were married at Newport Rhode Island.