[Tall_Texan]

BTW does this mean we are going to have to suffer thru the 40th anniversary of the magic bullet?

Yes, because Kennedy is the Elvis of presidents - bigger dead than he ever was alive. And secondly, because there's still no consensus on who shot him so the murder mystery endures. Interesting, isn't it, that the heavy-handed rush to judgement meant to stifle any doubt as to who was the murderer has been turned on its head into creating the most enduring murder mystery of all time. Ask 20 people and you might get 20 different theories.

[Tall_Texan]

And, for you stat hounds, notice how Truman's support is equally strong among Republicans as Democrats and even higher among Independents. Oh if Truman had only come out in favor of abortion, he might score better with the 'Rats.

While I'd have trouble classifying Truman as "great", I admire what he had to go through as the Accidental President - Hiroshima, the Marshall Plan, Korea, etc. He had a lot of chances to do terrible harm to our country and managed to sidestep most of them.

[WarrenC]

In a recent Ben Stein's Diary in The American Spectator, Stein includes the following parenthetical phrase in a reference to JFK's first inaugural address: (and only inaugural owing to Kruschev and Castro's cruel decision to assassinate him--see Edward Jay Epstein's astounding book, Legend) Are you familiar wtih this book? I hadn't heard of it.