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To: clee1
A little more about old Joe... just an excerpt, but there is much more at the link.. I had NO idea..


Joseph Kennedy and the Jews

Arriving at London in early 1938, newly-appointed U.S. Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy took up quickly with another transplanted American. Viscountess Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor assured Kennedy early in their friendship that he should not be put off by her pronounced and proud anti-Catholicism.

"I'm glad you are smart enough not to take my [views] personally," she wrote. Astor pointed out that she had a number of Roman Catholic friends - G.K. Chesterton among them - with whom she shared, if nothing else, a profound hatred for the Jewish race. Joe Kennedy, in turn, had always detested Jews generally, although he claimed several as friends individually. Indeed, Kennedy seems to have tolerated the occasional Jew in the same way Astor tolerated the occasional Catholic.

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14 posted on 10/17/2004 2:28:05 AM PDT by JesseJane (~On November 2, keep in mind what mattered most on 9-11.~)
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To: JesseJane

I didn't know this either, but it really comes as no surprise. Besides, the Kennedys are only Catholic when it is convenient.


16 posted on 10/17/2004 2:30:38 AM PDT by clee1 (Islam is a deadly plague; liberalism is the AIDS virus that prevents us from defending ourselves.)
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To: JesseJane

Yeah he kept supporting Hitler to the point that FDR fired his A** as Ambassador, and told him to shut TFU.


22 posted on 10/17/2004 4:57:01 AM PDT by marty60
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