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people who lived through his short term in office? I am 24 so this counts me out



Harry no comments I am Irish I take offense to JFK bashing:mad:


I want to know primary source accounts since you lived and experienced it. I know many here are old enough to recollect and make valid statements pertaining about JFK

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We'd have to be 70+ yrs old bro...doubt many here are that age other than Harry. He was elected in '60 and one would have to be at least 20 to have an adult perspective of him.

All I remember (barely) is watching his funeral at the age of 4 with my parents.

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He died 48 years ago. You would not have to be 70+ to remember his term.

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He didn't have much time to do anything except have a few wrestling matches with Marilyn Monroe, I used to think he was a liberal but jesus christ look at the bunch of loony bastards we've got running around this country today, JFK would have had Obama thrown out of the kitchen window if he saw him kissing ass with all of those cruddy dictators.

I'm Irish too-------:rocker:

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I thought SK was asking for first hand opinions of his term because he asked for "Critiques". So to have an independent opinion of him (not one influenced by your parents opinion), one would have to at least been old enough to vote for him. I didn't think SK was asking for memories. If that's the case, I'm sure some of us have some.

If one was 10 when Kennedy died, they would not be qualified to give any critiques.

If we do the math... that means one would have to have been 21 in 1960, so that's 51 years.

51 + 21 = 72

You're right, I was off by 2 years!

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Well lets ask SK--Would you be interested in anything from those between 10 and 20 years of age during his term? Current events were addressed in school back then after all.

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Pretty good president, cut marginal tax rates, staunchly anti communist, would never be nominated by the current dem party. Would have been closer to Palin than Obama interms of policy.

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Really, because the Civil Rights movement was his policy. He went against his military ad visors on the blockage of Cuba. When he sent a man to the moon, it was almost unrealistic. All policies which would be be light years closer to Obama's then Palins.

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Thats exactly what I was trying to say, today's Liberals would have crucified him for his infedelity because today he would have been considered "a righty".

The Kennedys treated their women like ***** (semen recepticles) Jackie told Teddy to go f-ck himself when Teddy tried to pull his Kennedy Crap on her telling her not to be seen with Onassis, Jackie straightend Uncle Teddy out, she married Onassis

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And there you have it, SK, the important observations Harry made of JFK's presidency.

:rolleyes:

Like Carter, he attempted to reverse a foreign coup, but in Cuba, not Iran. Like Obama, sent guys kill an enemy leader (Kennedy failed w/Castro; Obama succeeded w/Bin Laden.)

Unlike Bush, he didn't just say "he didn't really care where he was."

Unlike Reagan, he didn't invade a medical school and tell everybody what a BAMF he is (or send Marines to sit in barracks as a target, also a Reagan tactic.)

He'd be squarely in his own party today, the Democrats, despite the usual rightist claims that all good things were "really" republican (ditto FDR.) It's the righties that have been all "oooooh the war is so terrible" the last couple years, after all. (love it or leave it, hippies.)

As to his record of accomplishment: Well, we didn't all die, right? Other than that, meh. Two years, yanno? But he galvanized the country and passed the word that everybody didn't think like the "old men" of the day about things like civil rights -- i.e., he provided a visual and emotional cue that the young are by nature not wrong and bad. That ballooned in a variety of ways after his death. LBJ on his own would not have been LBJ on his mission to continue JFK's work.

A very interesting time, and a mixed bag -- both the times and the individual.

PFnV