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To: Brilliant
He had his high points and his low points. The tax cut and the Cuban Missile Crisis were his high points. Bay of Pigs and Vietnam were low

Calvin Cooledge did 10 times more. Was a far greater President, but he wasn't wacked, so he can't reach sainthood like Kennedy; the most overrated President in history!

5 posted on 10/06/2004 6:41:11 AM PDT by Bommer (“ To be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.” Edward R. Murrow)
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To: Bommer

Don't know if Coolidge did more, but I agree with your assessment of Kennedy. Of course, history may judge him differently from the media. I was only 5 when he was killed, so I don't have too much recollection of his Presidency, except what I read in the liberal media. On the other hand, I remember when I was in highschool, I took a course on American history, and my teacher told us about how he'd worked for the Kennedy campaign. He admitted, though, that Kennedy was not wildly popular while he was President. It was only after he was assassinated that he became godlike.


6 posted on 10/06/2004 6:45:59 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Bommer
...so he can't reach sainthood like Kennedy; the most overrated President in history!

I was 2 1/2 when Kennedy was killed. Kennedy was looked at on the same level as George Washington and Abraham Lincoln by the press and public school teachers in the 1960s and 1970s.

I didn't know any better until I did a report on Kennedy's political life in my junior year in high school. I had my doubts on his greatness then. In my young adult life, I played a round of golf with a retired FBI agent who was assigned to the White House during the Kennedy administration. That's when I learned what can happen to a public image when it has been burnished by a fawning press.A lot of his stories seemed uncannily similar to what we've read and heard of the Clinton White House.

20 posted on 10/06/2004 9:16:19 AM PDT by Ghengis
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