[Last Dakotan]

Had John F. Kennedy lived and had his shortcomings been investigated and written with Woodward-Bernstein-like passion, it is not far-fetched that he may not have been reelected in 1964.

The threat to the left of a Goldwater presidency was worth almost any coverup.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

I was alive then and as I recall Goldwater was ahead in the polls. That was the reason Kennedy went to Dallas in an attempt to "galvanize his base"- to use a current phrase.

In my opinion Kennedy was the first president totally created by the press. Compare him with Roosevelt who dominated the press and used it to impose his will. Nixon and Johnson were destroyed(unmade if you please) by the press.