Happy Birrrthday ..............Mr. Pwesident

[Godiva]

Mr President.....the late Marilyn Monroe

 

 

 

 

 

All day yesterday, today and for the next few days we will be saturated with the JFK mystic all over again. I even heard on CNN that in a recent poll of scholars..JFK was ranked #2 behind Lincoln.

 

What makes them the greatest? Is it that they both were brutally killed in their prime which I believe unfairly gives them a edge in their placement among the pantheon of Presidents. For those Presidents who never finished their terms in office we have projected what we think they would have done as oppose to those who served out their terms(in some cases 2 terms) and we are aware of what those Presidents did and didn't accomplished.

 

Could JFK and his Judy Eisners(sp) & Marilyn Monroes survive the type of scrutiny the "vast right-winged conspiracy;-) " put Clinton and Monica through and if he did survive..would Jackie still be adored if she "stood by her man"

 

Would Bush or Clinton rank higher on the best of list if they were killed in office?

 

How can we fairly rate Presidents.....if we can at all

 

 

...........................................Happy Birrrthday to you

[+ Charlie]

I can remember quite clearly that before his assassination, JFK was not particularly highly regarded, and there was some doubt about whether he would even manage to get re-elected the next year (he had won by the closest margin ever, until Gore beat Bush..er, uh...). I happened to see the live TV coverage of his arrival in Dallas an hour before the assassination, in a room with several other college students, and there were plenty of snide remarks made about him and Jackie (these were mostly liberal students at an elite northern school); those same students seemed to completely forget their previous feelings later that day.

 

The assassination had an incredible effect on the American psyche largely because it was filmed, and everyone could see it televised almost immediately after it happened. The other Presidential assassinations happened out of sight, when many Americans had never seen more than a sketch or a black and white photo of the President, and depended entirely on written descriptions of the event. It also happened during a time of international tension and was apparently perpetrated by an agent of a foreign enemy (Russia? Castro?), so it seemed like an attack on America rather than just on a politician, like the assassinations of Garfield and McKinley.

 

I suspect that when the generation of those who can remember the assassination, or who grew up in the post-assasination atmosphere, are dead, objective historians will place Kennedy somewhere in the second tier of major Presidents, after Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln and the Roosevelts.

[taylorky]

(he had won by the closest margin ever, until Gore

>beat Bush..er, uh...).

 

 

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