I met JFK snd liked him even though he was a Dem.
I’d volunteered at Republican hq in the city to collect money. Did such a great job, the state Repub finance director invited. me to lunch to offer me a paid job. As we ordered lunch, Cronkite came on to say JFK had been shot. I wanted to get home to my little kids and he wanted to go home too. End of my career as a Republican National Committee employee.
Yes, that a began the decline. Kennedy was the last good, smart, unbribable Dem.
Kennedy actually was a human being and fought them, but any post here draws the same venom against him from lemmings who would defend Nelson Rockefeller, Gerald Ford, Nixon and other betraying Rino’s who came later. It’s Republican right or wrong, ya know.
Unbribable? This man won his election due to the Mafia. He owed his LIFE to the mob. Yes, Johnson and the CIA had him killed, but they used Mafia connections to do the killing.
Despite having spent some years in Washington, between the House and the Senate, I believe JFK was still naive, like Trump, when it came to the government corruption that eventually killed him. Between the Bay of Pigs fiasco, and the assassination of South Vietnam's President Diem just 20 days before his own death, Kennedy's eye were opened up to the abuses of the CIA, and the other intelligence agencies...and it cost him his life.