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Peggy Noonan: Camelot on Painkillers
Opinion Journal ^
| 11/22/2002
| Peggy Noonan
Posted on 11/21/2002 9:14:27 PM PST by Pokey78
Edited on 04/23/2004 12:05:03 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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To: FairWitness
I hope I live long enough to see the end of the Camelot myth. I was 19 when Kennedy beat Nixon, and will never get over the way all the co-eds thought Kennedy was a god. Co-ed are weird. In my generation they thought Bill Clinton was sexy.
To: wingnuts'nbolts
Did you know Jackie was a chain smoker? She was never photographed with a cigarette.That explains how she stayed so skinny.
Wow, this is interesting stuff. I was born after Kennedy was assassinated and have only passing familiarity with this era. I can see I need to read some more, I have a tendency to blame everything on the baby boomers.
To: JohnHuang2
Thanks for the heads up!
To: Pokey78
Interesting that the youngest president was also the sickest, and the oldest, the strongest.
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11/22/2002 7:53:59 AM PST
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js1138
To: JohnHuang2
"Peggy Noonan MEGA PING!!"Right-on, John!
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11/22/2002 8:51:03 AM PST
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blackie
To: Pokey78
Theodore H White in his book In Search of History relates how Jackie Kennedy called him after JFK's assassination and asked White to memorialize JFK and his times as Camelot. White had written The Making of the President 1960 and had travelled extensively with JFK and his family. White said he was still besotted with JFK, and so did his part for Camelot. When White wrote his own autobiography, he said at the end that of all the things he did in his life, making JFK into a myth called Camelot was his biggest mistake. It was a lie from the get-go.
To: Pokey78
Thanks for all the pings tonight, Pokey. I enjoyed each article you posted tonight. (Are you going to the big game tomorrow? Do you think Fran is leaving? I don't.)
I think that my husband and I both voted for Kennedy. I remember my father and I sitting at the kitchen table and arguing politics. He couldn't believe I was for Kennedy. I had watched the last two democratic conventions and became a Kennedy "fan" because of that. My husband and I were 20 and were getting married that December.
It was when I first heard Reagan give his Goldwater speech that I realized that I was a conservative. My parents were conservative even though "everyone" in Alabama back then had to be a Democrat. Elections were decided in the primaries.
To: AUsome Joy
Fran's not going anywhere. Just your typical 9internet/Iron Bowl week rumormill at work.
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11/22/2002 5:27:26 PM PST
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Pokey78
To: Pokey78
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