JFK called Hitler 'the stuff of legends': Secret diary reveals future president's fascination with…

Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 20:55 EDT, 22 March 2017 | DailyMail.com Reporter

[dp0622]

I actually watched a debate between JFK and Nixon.

Not live, I was born in ‘68 :)

Watched it a few months back and though the liberal tones were there, they were not nearly as insane as the left is today.

[Enchante]

Yup, you’re wrong. btw, It’s easier to “Google” than to write an incorrect comment.

[dp0622]

I love her too!! :)

And besides knowing what to say to a weak and weary country, hitler was one of the most sick ####ing monsters to ever have lived.

And how did a guy who doesn’t look Teutonic at all become so powerful and attract so many followers?

It’s like an albino leading an African revolution

[TBP]

Papa Joe was an overt fan, at least of Mussolini.

[Olog-hai]

It’s really sad that Nixon governed so much like a liberal. Expanded the executive branch with EPA and OSHA, attacked the private railroads by creating Amtrak instead of deregulating (and his successor Ford continued that imitation of Woodrow Wilson in this respect by subsequently creating Conrail, thus almost recreating the USRA), instituted wage and price controls, et al.

And Nixon was the one to whom Reagan made the comparison (in a 1960 letter) of JFK to Marx and another infamous socialist:

One last thought — shouldn’t someone tag Mr. Kennedy’s bold new imaginative program with its proper age? Under the tousled boyish haircut is still old Karl Marx — first launched a century ago. There is nothing new in the idea of a Government being Big Brother to us all. Hitler called his “State Socialism”, and way before him, it was “benevolent monarchy.” …

Reagan never criticized Nixon in public the same way FWICS, but he was in “11^th commandment” mode by 1966 onwards anyhow.

[Sans-Culotte]

“You can easily understand how that within a few years Hitler will emerge from the hatred that surrounds him now as one of the most significant figures who ever lived,” Kennedy wrote. “He had boundless ambition for his country which rendered him a menace to the peace of the world, but he had a mystery about him in the way he lived and in the manner of his death that will live and grow after him. He had in him the stuff of which legends are made.”

I can't say I disagree with JFK's assessment. Even though Hitler is one of the most evil people in history, people have remained fascinated with him long after his death. I don't think Hitler has actually "emerged from the hatred that surrounded him" in the minds of most people, but there are many holocaust deniers who still idolize him. Hitler is definitely "one of the most significant figures who ever lived". He makes up a third of the 20th Century trifecta of most evil tyrants that includes Stalin and Mao.

[Olog-hai]

If JFK had said “legendary monsters”, I would have agreed with that. It’s like calling Mahomet a “legend”.

[tumblindice]

The much larger Japanese destroyer could see the PT boat but they couldn’t see the Japanese?
Spin it any way you want, but Kennedy and his crew were flaking out.
He should have been tried for gross dereliction of duty but instead he was decorated. LBJ and his Silver Star and John Frikken Kerry come to mind. Democrats all.

[plain talk]

I believe I saw the Kennedy/Nixon debates live. I was only 10 and they would have definitely been on the B&W set but I probably didn’t pay much attention. No one was giving away any free skateboards. :-) I have a better recollection of the election results coming in. My Dad was for Nixon but don’t recall him having any vitriol toward Kennedy.

[Seruzawa]

I read the book the Captain of the Japanese Destroyer wrote after the war. The Destroyer crew didn’t see the PT Boat either. It was a mishap in a pitch black night.

As far as spinning goes. I wonder how many hours you’ve spent on gunboats in the dark.

[colorado tanker]

To keep the Duke away from the press and Nazis the Brits stashed him in the Bahamas during the war. Not a bad place to spend a war, I suppose.

[captmar-vell]

Interesting, and then to have your brave young countrymen go off to fight for his and her freedoms against their hero Adolf, the very definition of being warped and twisted,

We have our own reprobates here in the Obamas, they would hold their coats while the MB and ISIS stoned our families to death,