John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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John F. Kennedy is a study in contradictions. On the one hand he was very close friends with Richard M. Nixon and agreed with him on many issues. Kennedy lowered taxes dramatically and created a booming economy later demolished by the skyrocketing tax increases from Lyndon Johnson. Economically JFK was the most conservative Democrat in the modern era. He is distinguished by being the only Democrat in history to create a economic climate favorable to business and the middle class and not rely on "class warfare", ie; "taxing the rich because they are robbing the poor" propaganda used by all his successors.
He was typical of Democrats in that he'd get the United States involved in wars because of his huge ego and misdirection by his "best and brightest." His ego cost the lives and Freedom of thousands of Cuban patriots in the Bay of Pigs and he started the US down the road of the Viet Nam conflict. JFK ignored personally written letters from Ho Chi Minh asking him for help to repair Viet Nam from the assinine French occupation. The French were failing badly and asked JFK to give them aid as they retreated. Ho Chi Minh by the way was a highly skilled chef who had studied under August Escoffier, the legendary French chef who was responsible for the creation of modern dining establishments. Ho Chi Minh had visited America and respected our country. Imagine the irony that Ho Chi Minh didn't want war in letters that Kennedy ignored time and again because his ego got in the way. This was before the Red Chinese had begun to invade Viet Nam. With America's misguided policy towards Viet Nam the only response the Viet Namese could take was to ask the Red Chinese, their northern neighbor for help with armaments. Naturally the supplying of the weapons to repulse the Americans came with strings attached and so Viet Nam was guided into the totalitarian dictums and a horrible war that Kennedy and Johnson called a "police action": the war in Viet Nam was never declared a war by Congress. The "police action" cost me and many people I knew the lives of many of their friends and families because of JFK's stupidity.
JFK had a beautiful and cultured wife but like the rest of the Kennedy "men" JFK cheated frequently on her with starlets including Marilyn Monroe and others. The left-wing extremist press back then covered up his indiscretions just as they did with Blow Job Clinton, the rapist who later shook his hand. It was also the press who treated him favorably when he failed in his war meddlings but when Richard M. Nixon got into office suddenly the Viet Nam conflict was terrible and was used politically against Nixon, primarily because he was conservative and a Republican.
JFK did get the country started on the extraordinary race to the moon which was the greatest boon to scientific reasearch and development of the time. However he did it in response to the Soviet Union's launching of a man into space rather than thinking grandly about it on his own.
He was a war hero primarily because he wasn't watching when a Japanese warship rammed his PT-109 in fog and sunk it. Why that makes him a war hero I can't figure out. His boat was sitting still in the ocean and nobody on board heard the massive engines and the sound of the water on the prow of the warship as it approached? Get real!
His 3 years in the White House were called "Camelot" after the play. As far as I can tell this was because his wife Jackie liked to throw big parties and invite lots of celebrities and the left-wing fawning press. Kennedy was sang "Happy Birthday" in a memorable party while Jackie fumed. She knew what was going on. Does having a glamorous wife and hiring "the best and the brightest" create Camelot? If memory serves the denizens of Camelot were chivalrous and loyal to their women and won all their battles. Can the same be said of JFK's White House?
My opinion is that Kennedy was overrated as a president but that his assassination and the left-wing press's loss of their favorite "royalty" and party boy is what made him a "legend". But on the other hand he was the best of the post WWII Democrap presidents by far, such as they have been. On to the articles!