Great points all. However, JFK's "40s infirmities" were his infirmities in his 20s and 30s also. His reputation is what it is because the Kennedy family has the resources to maintain an excellent PR machine, and too many of our generation still feel what we did about him when we were young enough to have the self-awareness of rocks. (Eve…
Great points all. However, JFK's "40s infirmities" were his infirmities in his 20s and 30s also. His reputation is what it is because the Kennedy family has the resources to maintain an excellent PR machine, and too many of our generation still feel what we did about him when we were young enough to have the self-awareness of rocks. (Every "movement person" I knew in the 60s would tell you if asked that "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country" was their original motivator) That and the fact he's been dead for 60 years has allowed too many liberals to hang their wishes about the way things should have been on him and invest him as the representative of those wishes.
Great points all. However, JFK's "40s infirmities" were his infirmities in his 20s and 30s also. His reputation is what it is because the Kennedy family has the resources to maintain an excellent PR machine, and too many of our generation still feel what we did about him when we were young enough to have the self-awareness of rocks. (Every "movement person" I knew in the 60s would tell you if asked that "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country" was their original motivator) That and the fact he's been dead for 60 years has allowed too many liberals to hang their wishes about the way things should have been on him and invest him as the representative of those wishes.