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Column: Decades later, JFK’s legacy remains complex and controversial
Chicago Tribune ^ | November 20, 2024 | Arthur I. Cyr

Posted on 11/22/2024 6:50:33 PM PST by george76

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To: ansel12

I can understand why Reagan would think that.

Kennedy believed the country shouldn’t serve the people, but that people should serve the country.

Serve. The people aren’t servaants, they ARE the country.


41 posted on 11/23/2024 6:45:47 AM PST by PrairieLady2 (USA: Land of the free, Because of the Brave.)
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To: DesertRhino

At the time he was basically a moderate. Today, he would be a Right Winger


42 posted on 11/23/2024 7:04:42 AM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: BenLurkin

IT -—HE was talking about going to the moon.


43 posted on 11/23/2024 9:02:51 AM PST by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: frank ballenger

EVERY AMERICAN ALIVE OVER THE AGE OF 10 CLEARLY REMEMBERS WHERE THEY ERE ON 11-22-1963.


44 posted on 11/23/2024 9:04:19 AM PST by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: frank ballenger

EVERY AMERICAN ALIVE OVER THE AGE OF 10 CLEARLY REMEMBERS WHERE THEY WERE ON 11-22-1963.


45 posted on 11/23/2024 9:04:31 AM PST by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: ansel12

THERE ARE IMMIGRANTS WHO FOLLOW THE LEGAL PATH TO ENTERING THE USA.

ALL OTHERS ARE INVADERS.


46 posted on 11/23/2024 9:06:56 AM PST by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: ridesthemiles

Yep, about 2 million a year or more legally, we don’t need any of them, about 120-150 million of them and their offspring since the left changed our immigration laws.

Glad you like what happened to America in the last 55 years since 1970, but I don’t, we were doing fine with the population we had, and now we aren’t, and we never will again.


47 posted on 11/23/2024 9:16:22 AM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: central_va
JFK was a right winger.

Not even close.

48 posted on 11/23/2024 9:18:53 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
WWII combat vet, anti tax and anti Communist ( inept but anti Communist ). He is a right winger by today's standards and he would have NO place in the DNC.
49 posted on 11/23/2024 9:21:29 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: frank ballenger

“Robert J. Ringer (author of Looking Out for #1 and Winning Through Intimidation)”

That second book was one of the most important books I ever read—many decades ago.

Nobody ever intimidated me after I read that amazing and wonderful book.


50 posted on 11/23/2024 9:24:03 AM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
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To: central_va
WWII combat vet, anti tax and anti Communist ( inept but anti Communist ). He is a right winger by today's standards and he would have NO place in the DNC.

WWII combat vet

Yawn. Plenty of the dear commies went to war for their dear buddies in the USSR.

Not anti-tax. A very SLIGHT tax cut that was a gift to his daddy dear old NAZI rum-runner Joe does not a "right winger" make.

And as for anti communist, oh my dear sir.... That explains why the communists retreated during his time.... except they expanded into areas that they had never been before. And kept expanding.

Every person who has tried to sell me on the druggie whore monger with mafia ties was a "rightwinger" has always tried to use the tiny tax cut as the base.

Your standards are shockingly low.

The dear druggie would have fit right into DC cuddling up to the left of Bernie Sanders.

51 posted on 11/23/2024 9:31:14 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

JfK would be to the left of MAGA and to the right of GOPe RINOs.


52 posted on 11/23/2024 9:42:06 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: central_va

The left has even made their top propaganda symbol one of WWII’s top war heroes with endless movies, books, magazine articles, and references and in public schools.

Why doesn’t anyone know what his medal for combat heroism is, how does it escape mention?

Do you know the military records of the other 3 men in the 1960 election, JFK’s veep Lt. Commander LBJ, Lt. Commander Richard Nixon, or Nixon’s veep lieutenant colonel Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.?

The left has blown JFK way out of proportion and created a mythology about him that places him among the greatest of all presidents and among the greatest of all Americans, and even among the greatest of all men.


53 posted on 11/23/2024 10:47:14 AM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: cgbg
Nobody ever intimidated me after I read that amazing and wonderful book.

I've always backed off from ever opposing you. The Ringer effect. 😁

54 posted on 11/23/2024 3:04:28 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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