I don't know your remembrances of JFK but mine are not what is pushed today. I have stated in the past (some forty years) that Kennedy's "greatness" was due to just one thing: TV was new and he was telegenic. Period. Period. Period.
As I recall (I did not google to confirm my memory) LBJ pushed through the legislation that is often credited to Kennedy. Kennedy accomplished virtually nothing with the Congress.
Did Vaughn Meador help E. Howard Hunt fake the evidence of Kennedy's involvement in the coup against Ngo Dinh Diem?
Anyone keeping up the news in those days knew of the Kennedy Administration's involvement in the affairs of South Vietnam. We accepted it. Everyone wanted "good" government for the people in South Vietnam. We also knew that Robert Kennedy was ruthless like few before him. John and Robert were not nice guys. Imagine two Ted Kennedys each with a brain and sober.
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB101/
Here you will find a link to an audio file described as "President Kennedy Meets with His National Security Council on the Question of Supporting a Coup in South Vietnam (10 minutes 55 seconds) From John Prados, ed. The White House Tapes: Eavesdropping on the President (New York: The New Press, 2003, 331 pp. + 8 CDs, ISBN 1-56584-852-7)"
Excerpt:
Dan Rather was complicit in defrauding the American public in an attempt to defeat a sitting President.
Rather must be fired now. Congress should subpoena CBS News' lawyers and all documentation of their advice.
But Dan Rather and CBS News had become co-conspirators by the time of their broadcast. ABC News has revealed that two of the experts whom CBS News consulted before running the broadcast — Emily Will from North Carolina and Linda James of Plano, Texas — could not and would not authenticate the fraudulent Killian memos, and expressly told CBS that.
The first witness must be an appropriate custodian of records from CBS News, who must be directed to bring every shred of paper, every email, every piece of videotape, every computer file, every outtake, every script, every memorandum of staff meetings — and every bit of advice rendered by inside or outside legal counsel to CBS News prior to the broadcast. There is no attorney-client privilege to shield advice rendered to assist a client in the perpetration of a crime or a fraud. See, e.g., Swindler & Berlin v. United States, 524 U.S. 399 (1998); United States v. Zolin, 491 U.S. 554 (1989).