Thank you for your thoughtful and intelligent reply.
I know Dallek. Also, as an NR reader and consumer of WFB’s older works I think it is fair to say there are “myriad” views on JFK.
For instance, he was a free marketeer, and a tax-cutter on a grand scale, which many “conservatives” found or find admirable.
I am not so sure what “western civilization” means now: I am just returned from New Haven where all that matters is a soup of race-victimhood.
Is the Civil Rights Act responsible for ALL this? I would say rather that it is the race-baiting of newer politicians, power
-hungry communists far more dangerous than JFK.
To be sure we can probably agree he - for all his womanizing - was far less dangerous to our country on any day than Obama is every day.
His Immigration Act ruined this country.