But for his head exploding in Dallas, JFK would be considered one of the worst presidents in the country’s history.
“But for his head exploding in Dallas, JFK would be considered one of the worst presidents in the country’s history.”
I doubt he’d be considered one of the worst; more likely one of the most inconsequential. When you ask somebody who sings his praises for a list of his accomplishments, they really don’t have an answer.
I agree. The bootlegging family was really trailer trash with money.
The only good thing I remember about him was a speech he gave where he said "Ask not what your country can do for you, Ask what you can do for your country." That was from his speech writer.
Today it is: "Where is my free stuff, the country sucks"
Very true. JFK gets credit for things that IKE or LBJ did, and all of his failings are glossed over.
The media of the day managed to take a silver-spoon, incompetent young man's war story, and turn him into a naval war hero. Getting a high speed torpedo boat run over by a destroyer, because the crew is sleeping, is at best dereliction of duty.
His perceived weakness caused the Cuban Missile Crisis. After it started the U.S. hardline position was hitting the sites and hitting them hard, yet JFK's concessions are treated in the history books as him having a spine of steel.
Your comment is not nice. He may have been a mediocre President but he inspired a nation and world and was then murdered...
What went on behind the scenes was bad but the press played along.
Leave it to Texas to stand there gawking while an assassin of the President of the United States, is himself assassinated on national TV.
Looking sharp!
If so, Goldwater might have had a chance against him in '64.