Posted on 01/10/2016 5:16:54 AM PST by Kaslin
Why are so many conservatives so giddy about JFK? He was most certainly not a conservative.
Couple of new ones here.
Yep he’s exactly like JFK and Camelot.
Camelot was a complete myth made up in people minds of what they wanted to believe existed but never did.
The great Donald Trump everyone is falling all over themselves for didn’t exist until just a few months ago when Trump and his followers began making up the myth.
The Trump of less than a year ago never existed.
Other than the skirt chasing, JFK and Reagan were very similar and Reagan was a Democrat in those days. They were both anti-Communist and believed in tax cuts and strong militaries. The great society started from Johnson, not JFK. And it was Nixon who gave us many of the alphabet agencies like EPA, OSHA, etc.
Second it.
a very narrow comparison regarding how to use new media.
Regarding any other comparision ?
JFK...WW2 combat veteran.
I’ll stop here.
Trump could be the new Abraham Lincoln...
He reminds me of my uncle John. Does that count?
Why do people do that - Donald Trump is the new...................... NO!
Donald Trump is Donald Trump.
I had a friend who has passed and she was introduced one time as this is Mrs____________. She replied no I’m Nancy! I was Nancy when I was born, I was Nancy growing up and I’m Nancy now & I’ll be Nancy when I’m dead and gone. Don’t call me Mrs____________. Call me Nancy!
He is and always will be Donald Trump and that is who we are voting for. Not someone you WISH he was.
:-D
I don’t believe this is what the author meant when he made the comparison
There is a Truman Library in Independence, MO.
the article makes no other meaningful comparison and in reality, there isn't.
I stated one instance of that.
True, I’ve been to it. I was speaking in generalities and frankly tribute to a man who wore the Presidency with great humility.
——Truman found time to relax and rest in his post-presidential years. He was never far from his favorite bourbon and enjoyed clanking glasses with the old friends, political allies, and dignitaries who came through Independence. While his health permitted, he took regular walks around town. He traveled some, including a 1953 auto trip to New York during which a policeman stopped him on the Pennsylvania Turnpike for making an illegal lane change. It was Truman’s only attempt at a long drive after leaving the presidency.-—
http://millercenter.org/president/biography/truman-life-after-the-presidency
The long ride home
When his eight years as President of the United States ended on January 20, 1953, private citizen Harry Truman took the train home to Independence, Missouri, mingling with other passengers along the way. He had no secret service protection. His only income was an Army pension.
Later that year, Truman bought a Chrysler New Yorker and got behind the wheel. He and Bess drove to Washington, New York and back home again by themselves.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/did-you-know-leaving-the-white-house/
On June 19, 1953, Harry Truman got up early, packed the trunk of his Chrysler New Yorker, and did something no other former president has done before or since: he hit the road. No Secret Service protection. No traveling press. Just Harry and his childhood sweetheart Bess, off to visit old friends, take in a Broadway play, celebrate their wedding anniversary in the Big Apple, and blow a bit of the money he’d just received to write his memoirs.
https://books.google.com/books/about/Harry_Truman_s_Excellent_Adventure.html?id=HAmPmAEACAAJ
Sorry, not overkilling you. Its just that I was about 5 and I just remember that simplicity and midwestern homeyness before Camelot and the vast Presidency we have today.
“You may remember not many people took seriously Kennedy’s campaign for the 1960 nomination. He was the junior senator from Massachusetts who, for seven years prior to running, had quite an undistinguished record in the U.S. Senate.”
Kennedy ran for the 1956 VP slot and nearly won it. It took the Democrats three attempts to gain Estes Kefauver the nomination over Kennedy.
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