My memory of the time was that the press were sycophants. All day, every day we were bombarded with how young and beautiful they were and how brilliant. It was a long, long time before negative articles came out in droves. The books of the time were by their academic circle of worshippers.
Yea, I had heard that too M. This speech was JFK slapping them down and asking them every so nicely, without getting tghem to backlash like they do against the Donald, to STFU and get onboard the American train.