Posted on 07/17/2011 5:32:01 PM PDT by izzatzo
As I studied the Vietnam war over the last 14 months, I began to think that John F. Kennedy probably was the worst American president of the previous century.
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Lyndon Baines Johnson never had any intention of winning in Vietnam, he just sent men to their deaths for domestic political purposes. May he and McNamar, his co-conspirator burn in hell eternally.
Screw them both.
google EO 11110...you’ll find a zillion articles on that... the one fact we know for sure is..He did print a few million of silver backed $2 and $5 bills..they’re collector items today..the ones with the red seal
I agree. Wilson is the hands-down winner.
JFK’s replacement was the worst.
“He said they all liked Kennedy but getting rammed was considered the very worst thing you could do as a PT boat commander. After all they were the fastest thing on the ocean.”
If you like military memoirs you should read Capt. Tameichi Hara’s “Japanese Destroyer Captain”. Hara’s destroyer was the one which struck PT 109, purely by accident on the part of the IJN. Hara was incensed when he was awakened and told about this event, as he considered the narrative too ridiculous to be true. He wanted to know what the crew had actually struck, and whether the watch was a fault. He did not have much respect for Kennedy’s seamanship. The book is a good read. The PT boat incident is only a couple of paragraphs long.
LBJ's legacy?
The destructuion of the urban family and a wall in Washington DC erected for the dead in a war he had no intention of winning.
I hate that son of a bitch and I don't use the word lightly.
I deliberately avoid driving on LBJ Freeway here in Dallas, just on principle.
Liberal revisionist history. Harding inherited an economy in turmoil and had the government in a budget surplus in three years. He and Coolidge are the most underrated Presidents of them all. Had to make FDR look good, you know.
Two sets of initials that raise the hair on my neck, LBJ and JFK and the second one ain’t Kennedy.
“There is also a quote from David Herbert Donald who states that Grant is the most underrated American in history.”
I can believe that. He had a real humanity that eludes most politicians. I know, he adopted a bloody and pedestrian policy of attrition to win the Civil War for the Washington government, but you can see the grief in his eyes over it too.
His memoirs reveal a thoughtful and considerate man, and a critical thinker. His thoughts on the war with Mexico are very interesting.
He was telegenic. Period.
“The JFK Presidency, is what killed America.”
I agree, and I have always believed that if Nixon had won that election history would have been much different, and much better. Nixon would not have allowed us to become entangled in Vietnam, and Lyndon Johnson would never have been president.
Wilson was bad, no question. BUT, every Democrat president of the century was awful AND damaged the country one way or the other. It was on the job training for Kennedy. His health issues were kept secret, as were his social habits. He chose Johnson for political reasons and not because he believed he was best for the American people.
Are you kidding? I sent my daughter to a Jesuit run school/ New Principal was a Jesuit. Minced around in soft funny knit scarfs, had a dog he showered with affedtion and he took a great interest in the boys who were coming out.
And no Federal Reserve
And no United Nations
And more than likely no depression
I agree 100%
“The JFK Presidency, is what killed America.” Nawww.
It was Teddy K and am I glad he didn’t have the guts to run for Pres. I attribute Obama to him, as well as most of the other miseries inflicted on this nation since the late 70s.
‘lived 4 another term’
you a product of public ed?
AUH2O was a comer until he had to run against LBJ and kenn eddys ghost
No, Wilson and Carter were worse. LBJ can be argued to have been worse, though that’s less clear, since he gets blamed for continuing JKF’s bad policies. And Kennedy did give us the first example of supply-side tax cuts.
Still somehow whenever I think of JFK, the line from Casablanca in which Rick comments on the two Germans, “Yesterday they were just a couple of German clerks, today they’re the honored dead,” always comes to mind. History would regard JFK less kindly had his assassination not left LBJ to finish is policy agenda.
JFK was also a friend of Barry Goldwater. They were both freshman Senators in the same class.
No JFK, no immigration bill, no Vietnam, no 60s, no unionized government employees, no many things.
The immigration bill that JFK had fought so hard for, and the immigration that he had promoted and pushed for many years, was the gift that was signed into law after his assassination.
If JFK had not become president then this nation would have survived and would be thriving.
The man was a scum bag as well.
No, it was JFK, for one thing Ted’s power came from JFK and his Presidency and assassination.
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