[WilliamofCarmichael]

RE: "He saw the Berlin Wall, Vietnam, and Cuba as good vs. evil fights. He knew the coercive nature of Khrushchev’s Soviet Russia. He saw the brute for of it up close and personal."

If he was all that how come Khrushchev made an ass of him and he had to find some way to save his manhood?

If he hadn't been doped-up or whatever his problem was when he met Khrushchev the events in VN would likely to have been entirely different.

.. and yes the Democrat Party of Kennedy is no longer.. the 1960's Marxist-Alinksy campus radical, psycho spoiled brats took over the Party in the 1970s.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

"ask not what your country can do for you- ask what you can do for your country"

Some claim it came from JFK's youth. A private school refrain: ". . . the youth who loves his Alma Mater will always ask not 'what can she do for me? but 'what can I do for her?'"

[rbmillerjr]

“If he was all that how come Khrushchev made an ass of him and he had to find some way to save his manhood?”

I take it from the Reston report, which is unconfirmed, that Kennedy was in shock at the intensity and brazenness of Khrus.

“If he hadn’t been doped-up or whatever his problem was when he met Khrushchev the events in VN would likely to have been entirely different.”

What is your perspective on that? I don’t see any linkage at all to their meeting.