[Reno89519]

Tire of the pulp fiction stories. FR should be better than this. It is old history, private, and should be none of our business. I don't care if it is Kennedy, Clinton, Trump, Eisenhower, or whoever.

The worst thing about this is that the people harping about this turn out to be just as guilty. Sometimes over totally perverted behavior. Hastert comes to mind, also Helms, Jordan, and so many others. The more holier-than-thou, the more likely they have their own skeletons.

[Rockingham]

The distinction between the public and private facets of life is a polite convention that modern biographers and historians disregard so as to better assess the entire person. In addition, JFK's compulsive and reckless womanizing led to a belief in the CIA, military intelligence, and the FBI that he had become compromised and a threat to national security. This may have motivated JFK's assassination by elements of the national security state in collusion with LBJ.

In fairness to JFK, he suffered from complex and not fully understood health problems that led to him taking a cocktail of drugs that included steroids and methamphetamine. In addition to family influences and personal decisions, these no doubt contributed to Kennedy's womanizing.

Moreover, John Kennedy had a genuine charm that won over other people. And we have reason to be grateful that he vetoed a US invasion of Cuba, infuriating the highest echelons of the US military in doing so. The US was unaware at the time that such an invasion would likely have triggered the firing of Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba on the US, followed by a general nuclear exchange.

[Ann Archy]

YOU are a sicko!! Of COURSE it matters! It’s NOT a PRIVATE story....it’s about US and who we elect!<P.The Jordan story is pure BULLCRAP!

[Article10]

Do you ever ask why? The Deep State and the party bosses who make sure flawed ones are chosen and funded. That’s how they control them. This is all the result of the 17th Amendment. The parties and the lobbyists are in control

Time to repeal the 17th Amendment.

[ronniesgal]

amen to that!!!! Why is it that that the “holy” types can’t keep their flys closed, and yet they preach about family values?
I see you’ve already been chastised by the crazy folk here.

[subterfuge]

You’re right. History is stupid.

[cgbg]

“It is old history, private, and should be none of our business”

The character of public figures is our business.

It is very serious business.

One (of many) reasons is the lying and coverups that are required destroys the character of the public figure. Once they get in the habit of lying they will tend to do it about everything else.

Another reason is that the public figures becomes prey for blackmailers—including foreign intelligence agencies.

A third reason is it shows a blatant disregard for other human beings—treating them like chattel. It is a red flag for sociopath behavior that will and almost always does translate into the public sphere.

It is much better to know too much about these folks than too little.

When establishment historians participate in the lies and coverups it destroys the credibility of the historians as well—an assault on the history of all of us.