[goodwithagun]

I know a Marine who was involved in the Cuban missile crisis. He is a life-long conservative and praises JFK for what he did. He says that we don't know how close we were to nuclear war. Other than that, yeah, they are all scum. In one of my grad classes (social studies education) I made my professor laugh (she's a conservative) because I told the class that old Joe made his money bootlegging.

[Williams]

I was a Kennedy worshipper at the time. I will just note Nixon claimed we let the Russians off easy on Cuba. We had the Russians outgunned (Kennedy had lied about the “missile gap” to get elected) and we had every just reason to invade Cuba. Instead we may have agreed never to invade.