Posted on 08/03/2009 10:48:30 AM PDT by WesternCulture
He even tried to learn Swedish;
“According to the memoir, Kennedy referred to the then 21-year-old von Post as “My Swedish Gorilla”, having misunderstood the pronunciation of her first name when he had first met her”
Gunilla is a Swedish name, Gorilla is an African animal. Somewhat confusing, isn't it:D
(Sorry for sounding trifle disrespectful, I do NOT think JFK deserved his fate. Even if some people here are critical of his actions and opinions, I think we all agree he was a democratically elected leader of a free country and that we also believe such elections are fundamental to true freedom, whatever their outcome)
How’s this for a novel idea....a book about women JFK didn’t have affairs with?
Fidelity, Democrat style.
useless without pictures!
Actually, there was massive election fraud involved in his win. In, of all places; Chicago. The margin there was enough for Kennedy to defeat Nixon. Democratically elected? Not.
But who wants to read a book about Helen Thomas?!!!
Once upon a time.
The End.
Won't win a Pulitzer for Journalsim, that's for sure.
Few pages and Connect the dots.
To play amateur psychoanalyst for a moment, I think that people (men in particular) that are given to such voracious sexual appetites have deeper, more troubling psychological problems at play. And, as much as leftists liked to "shrink" Bush for eight years, the fact of the matter is their idols, Kennedy and Clinton, were both a psychiatrist's dream. Each were deeply troubled and emotionally disturbed men that exhibited character flaws in the extreme, JMHO.
There are several jokes about presidents screwing the country. JFK took it literally.
We need more HB1 visas so that America’s airlines can get back in the black by hiring more Swedish airline stewardesses.
Also of note, Ben Bradlee’s sister-in-law, Mary Meyer.
http://partners.nytimes.com/books/first/b/burleigh-private.html
I’m no fan of JFK.
My issues are that Eisenhower left him three military operations underway and he made a mess of all three.
Eisenhower had trained a Tibetan army which was in combat against the Chinese. Kennedy cut them off and they were wiped out to the last man.
Eisenhower had trained a Cuban army and Kennedy dumped them on the beach with Castro’s army waiting to round them up.
And Eisenhower’s team that had defeated the communists in the Philippines had been re-deployed to South Vietnam. Kennedy fired them and handed it over to his Harvard geniuses, and ordered the assassination of the democratically elected Diem. His remark later was something like, “oh, did I do that?”.
Three operations and three disasters.
Barack Obama certainly has issues about his two fathers and his mother running out on him.
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