[socal_parrot]

There has never been a president in my lifetime (Eisenhower +) that sold "family man" as did JFK. Kennedy as a President was over rated. His early death has led to a cottage industry of "what ifs".

[marron]

Stories about his drug use and his other private sins need to be made public, not because they are terribly important, but because his enablers saw fit to hide them all these years.

But I am much more interested in tabling a real discussion, finally, about the assassination of President Diem, about the betrayal and subsequent slaughter of the Tibetan Army, and the betrayal of the Eisenhower's Cuban force, abandoned into the waiting hands of Castro's Army. These are subjects we have only barely begun to explore. I would like to see a 10-part miniseries on these aspects of Camelot. Camelot. Thats an Orwellian turn of phrase if ever there were one.

[RIGHT IN SEATTLE]

SLOB IN THE HAMTONS!!!!!

[CyberAnt]

Keep in mind, the Kennedy family has allowed all this dreadful stuff to be said about their family member for only one purpose - to rescue the legacy of x42.

If anybody's disgraceful, the Kennedy's are.

[MHT]

Another case of a Democrat having sex in a federal workplace with a powerless subordinate during office hours. Sounds more like sexual harassment than someone's "private life". ("Private life" is what you do with actresses at Peter Lawford's house when you're out there visiting your sister while your wife is away.)

Once again, the best book on Kennedy remains, "A Question of Character" by Reeves. Out of print, but worth the alibris.com search.

[speedy]

Shades of the old Buckley in this column. Great to see some of that energy again.

[Consort]

Lingering Camelot Syndrome still afflicts many Liberals. Chris Matthews is a good example.

[ArGee]

Why do we fail to express outrage when an older man or woman seduces someone much younger than him/herself, regardless of the political implications?

There is a song on the C&W stations where the singer reminisces about a summer he worked for a widow. He sings about how she had "a need to feel the thunder." He goes on to say that he can never hold another woman without seeing that widow's face.

Does anyone but me realize that the widow has stolen something from the man's eventual wife? Does anyone but me realize that the man trivialized something that is actually of great worth?

Our over-sexed society thinks we are but beasts and that orgasm is just another game to be played.

Will we learn otherwise in time?

Shalom.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

I think back to that November day in 1963 when we cried for this man in our sheer ignorance of who he really was.