[MinuteGal]

The socialist intellectual elites, advisors, speech writers, historians and economists that surrounded JFK are dying off, one by one. No loss to the country. They have infected the northeastern (university-saturated) states for decades.

These Kennedy left-overs and their ilk are one of the prime reasons that the New England states are impossible liberal wastelands for conservatism to penetrate.

After Camelot, most of them gravitated to the book-writing and communications fields or to university presidency and professorial jobs where they have infected thousands of young minds full of mush over the years.

Communist, socialist and anti-American intellectuals have always concentrated on the young, knowing that their elders are too set in their ways and largely not worth their efforts.

This is why Hillary's every other phrase has always been "for the children", or "it takes a village". A former Goldwater activist as a young woman, she quickly took her cue from the intellectual socialist strategists at her university in the northeast, and re-invented herself quickly to the "concerned" Marxist she is today. Along with the intellectual operatives, the younger generation is her prey.

Leni

[Theodore R.]

I can't disagree with a thing you wrote. However, most people in New England do not know these leftist intellectuals -- wouldn't know one if he knocked on their doors. But they are still, as you say, motivated by their "ideas," which are essentially all ower to the socialist state, with liberals "in charge."

[wildbill]

I had to laugh at your description of Prof. Neustadt as a socialist. He was a member of Harry Truman's 'Kitichen Cabinet' and his specialty was in staffing and forming a government during transition from one administration to another.

I was a freshman in his government class at Columbia when he advised Kennedy on personnel. Each week he went to Washington for his job as consultant--and the following week he'd return with insider knowledge on what was happening. It was an unbelievable opportunity for an insight on how our democracy transitions from one Presidency and party to another--in those days without the partisanship of trashed govenment offices and the like.

He was a good man, a patriot, a citizen who answered the call of duty, and a wonderful teacher, always allowing us freshmen to express our points of view and answering our naive questions with good humor and patience.

Somewhere, I bet he's lighting up that scruffy old pipe and answering a young angel's question with that twinkle in his eye. God Speed, Professor.