[RLK]

JFK became involved in the civil rights movement rather lately and rather weakly. His personal tastes were opposed to the movement unless it could somehow be manipulated to bring him a few votes. Revisionistic history has attempted to portray him as a second MLK.

Kennedy had enemies for other reasons. There was a sarcastic maxim at the time, "What's the road to the White House?" Answer: "Go to Harvard, then turn left."

When Kennedy had the president of United States Steel summoned to the White House like a dog to receive a tounglashing for increasing steel prices, it created a lot of anger in the business and other communities. Kennedy was a heavy-handed leftist when it suited his purposes. I lived through the period. There is little now written about Kennedy that I recognize from the period.

To paraphrase a Reagan quip, I remember John Kennedy and believe me John Kennedy was no John Kennedy.

[WaterDragon]

I never understood how JFK won the South when everyone there seemed to hate him so.

One thing he did do was, as the article notes, cut taxes, and he twisted the arms of the Democratic Congress to get those cuts. At least in JFK Democrats had some leadership. Today there is none except for the special interest groups.