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This is so Sad JFK Begged us for HELP you can hear it in his voice at the end!
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Democrats were different back then. Both Kennedy and Nixon were good men (in different ways) who tried to buck a system too big for them to handle. They both got disposed of in different ways and basically nobody since has challenged the powers that those two took on.
Quoting: Ordovician The man was a life long Democrat snip Kennedy did not disappoint his family; in fact, he never lost an election. His first opportunity came in 1946, when he ran for Congress. Although still physically weak from his war injuries, he campaigned aggressively, bypassing the Democratic organization in the Massachusetts 11th congressional district and depending instead upon his family, college friends, and fellow navy officers. In the Democratic primary he received nearly double the vote of his nearest opponent; in the November election he overwhelmed the Republican candidate. He was only 29.-50% [ link to www.britannica.com (secure)]  Haha you got me there, both him and Johnson were vote-rigging pros from way back. True enough. Kennedy was far from perfect. He also likes rough sex in the bathtub, so they say. But he wanted to dismantle the Fed and the CIA, which shows he had balls at least. And he fucked up the bay of pigs but handled the Cuban Missile Crisis — easily the closest the planet ever came to total global themonuclear war — with pure finesses.I certainly remember the Cuba missiles crisis. I have seen Nikita Krustchev in real life in 1960 when he came to visit General de Gaulle. My father used to take me to all the official receptions during de Gaulle's tenure. My mother would refuse to go to these things so I got to attend every official gig and parties. The same during President Georges Pompidou's tenure. It was rather modest at the time comparing with now.  Cool. You should write a book. I was always interested in DeGaulle...a real time individual with pride for his people.
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