You could have cut all the rest of that stuff and just agreed that JFK was a genuine hero in WWII, but I guess that you thought we needed the National Enquirer version of the story.
Yeah, I did. I lived through all the hero worship of JFK when I was younger. And the mark of that man is the Cubans he left to die at the Bay of Pigs, the President of Viet Nam he let be removed [and who was subsequently murdered], the Attorney General he put in office who ran more illegal wiretaps than anyone in history, and the Cuban missile crisis he didn’t really win.
Did he save a man’s life after his PT boat was lost through his own misfeasance? Yes, he did. Would he have had to if he had done what was ordered? Most probably not.
JFK was the first political leader we elected who was pure form over meaningful substance. He was a deeply flawed human being AND political leader.And I didn’t read that stuff in the “National Inquirer”. I read it in books. You can look it up.