it is, isn't it....I noticed his 'accent' then...and lack of it now.....haven't you?
I hav enoticed that, too. He sounds like a pretentious cross between Thurston Howell III and a 1940s film noir (there's that French again!) installment.
He was in real full Kennedy-mode, then. He still sounds like a Kennedy, but not as much as he did in '71.