[Ruth A.]

That quality is charisma. Like it or not, many felt JFK had it. What he did with it is a disappointment, as Buckley points out so well.

[eddie willers]

That quality is charisma.

Agreed....Kennedy had charm and great wit.

Plus....you've got to hand it to a guy who says to a gathering of Nobel Prize winners at the White House,

"This is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."

[RLK]

That quality is charisma.

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It's been called that. Supermodel Cindy Wazzername has it. She gets $9,000,000 per year to have her photograph on the cover of magazines. People go ape over it. However it's more a characteristic of the people viewing the photographs rater than substance on her part. It's not a refendum on her IQ.