To: DPB101
In 1954, when some snot at the 15th reunion of his class got up to toast Harvard College for never having produced an Alger Hiss or a Joe McCarthy, John F. Kennedy stood up and walked out, roaring, "How dare you couple the name of a great American patriot with that of a traitor."Wow, is this correct?
2 posted on
05/11/2003 10:40:05 AM PDT by
#3Fan
To: #3Fan
Kennedy was the only Senator who did not censure McCarthy. He had a back injury at the time. This was in Chris Matthew's Kennedy and Nixon: The Rivalry That Shaped Post-War America.
To: #3Fan; TonyRo76; profmike23
Robert Kennedy was one of Joe McCarthy's top aides. He picked Joseph McCarthy- not any of his brothers- to be the godfather of his first child, Kathleed Kennedy Townsend, former Lt. Governor of Maryland.
To: #3Fan
Yeah, but who did JFK consider the hero and who the traitor?
54 posted on
05/16/2003 1:13:33 PM PDT by
brownie
(Reductio Ad Absurdum, or something like that . . .)
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