For the record, Cuban-Americans are not among JFK fans, primarily because of the Bay of Pigs.
Posted on 11/25/2017 10:56:38 AM PST by SeekAndFind
We remember the 54th anniversary of President Kennedy's assassination this week.
There is something about President Kennedy's legacy, as Alan Brinkley wrote a few years ago:
President Kennedy spent less than three years in the White House. His first year was a disaster, as he himself acknowledged. The Bay of Pigs invasion of Communist Cuba was only the first in a series of failed efforts to undo Fidel Castro’s regime. His 1961 summit meeting in Vienna with the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev was a humiliating experience. Most of his legislative proposals died on Capitol Hill.
Yet he was also responsible for some extraordinary accomplishments. The most important, and most famous, was his adept management of the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, widely considered the most perilous moment since World War II. Most of his military advisers – and they were not alone – believed the United States should bomb the missile pads that the Soviet Union was stationing in Cuba. Kennedy, aware of the danger of escalating the crisis, instead ordered a blockade of Soviet ships. In the end, a peaceful agreement was reached. Afterward, both Kennedy and Khrushchev began to soften the relationship between Washington and Moscow.
He is extremely popular overseas, but the reasons are vague. No one can give you a specific reason or accomplishment.
They love him in Latin America, perhaps for the Peace Corps.
His impact in U.S. politics is huge, and I would recommend Dr. Sabato's book, The Kennedy Half-Century: The Presidency, Assassination, and Lasting Legacy of John F. Kennedy. Every modern Democrat embraces Kennedy.
For the record, Cuban-Americans are not among JFK fans, primarily because of the Bay of Pigs.
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A few years ago a liberal magazine called him "monster" after a book came out be one of his mistresses who worked in the White House.
And our government did this without informing us at the time so as to make it look like a win for us when it was in fact either a win for the Soviets or at best a tie.
I can’t recall anything good JFK did for the country. He whored around humiliating his wife. He was a druggie taking both amphetamines and downers, and worst of all sent the first combat troops to a war that would never be run by the generals with a winning strategy. He was only popularized because the old media said he was good and a knight of Camelot. I rank him as one of the 4 worst Presidemt.
So much for Harvard trained lawyers on speeches by elected officials...
“I can’t recall anything good JFK did for the country.”
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He showed up!
With a valid BC too!!!!!!!!!!!
;)
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Johnson sent the first acknowledged “combat troops” into Vietnam. Kennedy’s Green Berets were “advisors.”
..... Yup .... I precisely did just that ..... Turns out .... He's still dead.
Second look at JFK...?
No thanks...once was enough.
Twice!
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Kennedy was an incredibly stupid jerk. The best thing about him was that he was too busy jumping in and out of bed at least three times a day to make much trouble.
As the saying used to go, “He governs best who governs least.”
Wow, that photo looks like it was taken two seconds ago.
Who here could not do the same?
You read a different history book than I have. My cousin was a Green Beret in Nam.
My father knew JFK quite well and also graduated from Harvard in the same class, 1940. He liked him a lot and he and mom often spent time with their family after they married. But, their politics were quite different, Jack was a womanizer as long as father knew him and when invited to the funeral, dad said, “no thanks.” I never knew why he was so adamant about attending the funeral.
Here?
Well there was Chester Arthur.........and.......hmmm.....not sure of the name ...it has so many names, countries, etc......
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I hate to sound like I am defending a Kennedy, but I am not! The following is just stating a fact.
The missile given up in Turkey were Jupiter PGM-19’s, a liquid fueled IRBM, by the 1960’s outdated. Liquid fueled missiles were being phased out, too slow to prepare for launch. Since they were IRBMs too close to the target to be that slow!
So if we had to give up something, that’s the something to give up!
Stated another way, of all the Democrat presidents since Truman, Kennedy did the least damage. Coincidentally he served the shortest period of time of all of them.
I take it you didn’t notice my quotation marks around certain words. Furthermore the first Green Berets were sent to Vietnam in 1957. I’m pretty sure JFK was not president then.
And the Space race. Got to give him a bit of credit for that vision. Unless I’m not correct.
“A group of low life people”
Yes and JFK and RFK are only “honored” because they were assassinated, and not for anything they actually did to better the country. And it would be a hoot today to see Teddy running for cover what with all the women he assaulted going after him. He died too soon for the retribution to take place.
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