[Senator Goldwater]

I don’t understand the vitriol and hatred here for JFK. He didn’t set out to do anything to damage or destroy the United States and he wasn’t a democrat of the caliber of the dems today. Nowhere near!

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I agree. JFK was a war hero and a patriot. He lowered taxes like Reagan. Check out JFK: Conservative by Ira Stoll.

[Verginius Rufus]

The 1960 election was the first one I was old enough to understand what was going on. I remember listening to the debates on the radio (we did not have a TV). Quemoy and Matsu. No one knew who would win.

After Kennedy won, I remember my mother saying that she should go out and spend all their money because it was going to be worthless.

JFK was a liberal--but a Cold Warrior and not nearly as far to the left as the more recent Democrats.

Three famous people died on November 22, 1963. The other two were C. S. Lewis and Aldous Huxley. The latter two wrote all of the books published under their names.