[re_nortex]

A good follow-up question for Charles Rose to ask could have been “How did your family feel about a ‘search for god’ by the men on the ground who were left to fight without air cover during the Bay of Pigs”?

AMEN!

The deification of Johnny Kennedy is disgusting (and he even has some fans here on Free Republic). For those of us old enough to remember his evil administration, he ranks among the worst of all presidents, in the same category as Franklin Diablo Roosevelt and the current occupant. JFK acquiesced to commies and was a pushover for Krushchev and Castro. Had Nixon, then a fierce fighter against the Soviets and Red China, won in 1960, Cuba would be a free nation and our victory would have been assured in Vietnam.

I'm sorry but there's not going to be any praise from me about Johnny Kennedy and his corrupt clan. Sure, he may have lowered taxes but that doesn't begin to offset the evil he allowed to flourish on his watch.

[Cicero]

Agreed. Actually, Kennedy was too busy making out with 2 or 3 women every day to pay much attention to his job. As you say, he stole the election from Nixon with the Chicago Machine, which his gangster father had been involved with. He gave us the Bay of Pigs, ensured the loss of Vietnam by assassinating our ally there, and caved repeatedly to Kruschev.

And he chose LBJ to be his VP so he could also steal the Texas votes.

That, of course, gave us LBJ and the Great Society, which put our deficits on steroids and built a huge welfare class permanently on the Democrat plantation, finishing the work that FDR had begun.

[BfloGuy]

he ranks among the worst of all presidents, in the same category as Franklin Diablo Roosevelt and the current occupant

Yeah, I've always thought of him as a hip Jimmy Carter with a hot wife.

[kabumpo]

Yes! A terrible president.

[cynwoody]

Sure, he may have lowered taxes but that doesn't begin to offset the evil he allowed to flourish on his watch.

E.g., Executive Order 10988, allowing the unionization of the federal work force.