[Maria S]

"No dreamy recollections of a hero President..."

He wasn't all that dreamy to me (Jackie WAS my heroine...I loved the way she looked with her hair and clothes), but I can remember the exact moment when I heard about the Kennedy assassination. What I was wearing, who I was with. Wonderful blue sky/autumn afternoon...and it just seemed like the world suddenly fell apart. Such things just did NOT happen in my world. Looking back, I realize how naive we all were about real life.

[faithincowboys]

I was talking about Ike, not JFK. But Kennedy also had a flair and could engender idealism in people-- of course, we had no idea about his many picadilloes.