Posted on 06/02/2016 8:23:07 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
BOSTON —President John F. Kennedy’s love letter to an alleged secret mistress will be put up for auction by RR Auction.
The four-page love letter was written to Mary Pinchot Meyer, a Kennedy family friend and wife of CIA agent Cord Meyer, in October 1963, a month before the president’s assassination.
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Actually, I remember where I was when the news came that Kennedy had been assassinated.
It’s not the dead body in the photo as much as all those police & officials standing around gazing, yes ghoulishly, at it and not doing much of anything else. Who’s snapping photos for evidence? How many does it take to process the scene & arrange for body removal to where the autopsy will be performed?
FWIW, I saw far worse in Vietnam.
Thank you for your thoughtful and intelligent reply.
I know Dallek. Also, as an NR reader and consumer of WFB’s older works I think it is fair to say there are “myriad” views on JFK.
For instance, he was a free marketeer, and a tax-cutter on a grand scale, which many “conservatives” found or find admirable.
I am not so sure what “western civilization” means now: I am just returned from New Haven where all that matters is a soup of race-victimhood.
Is the Civil Rights Act responsible for ALL this? I would say rather that it is the race-baiting of newer politicians, power
-hungry communists far more dangerous than JFK.
To be sure we can probably agree he - for all his womanizing - was far less dangerous to our country on any day than Obama is every day.
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Rush is certainly on the money with his characterization of the Clintons as a crime family is he not?
See my post at #106.
See my post at #106.
His Immigration Act ruined this country.
Compare almost anybody in 1960 to almost anybody today and the 1960s person would be "more conservative" because the issues that are so divisive today weren't even on the horizon back then. So it's not really meaningful to say that JFK 1960 was somehow "more conservative" than McCain 2008.
For what little it's worth, if JFK had lived longer I really don't believe that he'd somehow go against his state, his party, and his family by becoming a Republican or being especially conservative. Most likely he'd drift the way they did. And if Kennedy were still alive today, at 99, he wouldn't be much of anything politically.
And if Kennedy were still alive today, at 99, he wouldn’t be much of anything politically....Why not? Clinton and Carter are.
Depends on what you mean by "Washington." A lot of politicians and reporters didn't have a clue what was going on. Some of those who thought they did, didn't know names and details. And people could keep different and conflicting ideas in their mind at the same time so long as they didn't have any definite evidence, so some who sort of "knew" about Jack's sex life didn't really "know."
It was well known in D.C. that Cord’s wife was JFK’s mistress. It was no secret.
The reporters knew exactly who she was, what she was. People who were in D.C. at the the time, everybody in the media, everybody on the Hill, it was known who she was, it was unspoken who did it.
she had become very vocally anti-CIA, too
not only loose with sensitive matters but harshly against the agency
she sure could have stepped on the wrong toes at some of those DC cocktail parties
Trivia...Who was in the car with JFK when he was shot?
went to the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield village when I was about 5.
Where as you or I maybe collected baseball cards or marbles, Henry collected Locomotives. Oh my.
Have been thinking of going there again real soon.
Must be nice having money to burn.
I have a growler collection.
I’ve never been a collector. Couldn’t see spending the money on knick knacks and there is way too much dusting required. LOL
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