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Jackie Kennedy: PTSD and a Remarkable Fighting Spirit
The History Reader ^ | J. Randy Taraborrelli

Posted on 09/14/2025 11:06:09 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege

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To: LouAvul; cowboyusa

Reagan called him a marxist.

Reagan to Nixon, in a private letter.
“I do not include Kennedy’s acceptance speech because beneath the generalities I heard a frightening call to arms. Unfortunately, he is a powerful speaker with an appeal to the emotions. He leaves little doubt that his idea of the ‘challenging new world’ is one in which the Federal Government will grow bigger and do more and of course spend more.”
(snip)
“One last thought - shouldn’t someone tag Mr. Kennedy’s bold new imaginative program with its proper age? Under the tousled boyish haircut is still old Karl Marx - first launched a century ago. There is nothing new in the idea of a Government being Big Brother to us all. Hitler called his ‘State Socialism’ and way before him it was ‘benevolent monarchy.”


41 posted on 09/14/2025 2:18:49 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Liz
his memoir, Jackie's dress designer said Jack told him he would never quote Jefferson in a presidential speech b/c of the man's antipathy towards Catholics

I want to tell you how welcome you are to the White House. I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.

Someone once said that Thomas Jefferson was a gentleman of 32 who could calculate an eclipse, survey an estate, tie an artery, plan an edifice, try a cause, break a horse, and dance the minuet. Whatever he may have lacked, if he could have had his former colleague, Mr. Franklin, hear we all would have been impressed.

John F. Kennedy Remarks at a Dinner Honoring Nobel Prize Winners of the Western Hemisphere.… April 29, 1962

Source. https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-dinner-honoring-nobel-prize-winners-the-western-hemisphere

42 posted on 09/14/2025 2:40:27 PM PDT by Ditto
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To: Ditto

I sure would rather have had JFK, than Biden for the four years he was here...


43 posted on 09/14/2025 5:11:22 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: tumblindice

Your report makes more sense regarding the JFK killing than hundreds of other theories I’ve heard.


44 posted on 09/14/2025 8:43:39 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Import the third world. Become the second world.)
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