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It's time to take a second look at JFK
American Thinker ^ | 11/25/2017 | Silvio Canto Jr.

Posted on 11/25/2017 10:56:38 AM PST by SeekAndFind

We remember the 54th anniversary of President Kennedy's assassination this week. 

There is something about President Kennedy's legacy, as Alan Brinkley wrote a few years ago:

President Kennedy spent less than three years in the White House. His first year was a disaster, as he himself acknowledged. The Bay of Pigs invasion of Communist Cuba was only the first in a series of failed efforts to undo Fidel Castro’s regime. His 1961 summit meeting in Vienna with the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev was a humiliating experience. Most of his legislative proposals died on Capitol Hill.

Yet he was also responsible for some extraordinary accomplishments. The most important, and most famous, was his adept management of the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, widely considered the most perilous moment since World War II. Most of his military advisers – and they were not alone – believed the United States should bomb the missile pads that the Soviet Union was stationing in Cuba. Kennedy, aware of the danger of escalating the crisis, instead ordered a blockade of Soviet ships. In the end, a peaceful agreement was reached. Afterward, both Kennedy and Khrushchev began to soften the relationship between Washington and Moscow.

He is extremely popular overseas, but the reasons are vague.  No one can give you a specific reason or accomplishment. 

They love him in Latin America, perhaps for the Peace Corps.

His impact in U.S. politics is huge, and I would recommend Dr. Sabato's book, The Kennedy Half-Century: The Presidency, Assassination, and Lasting Legacy of John F. Kennedy.  Every modern Democrat embraces Kennedy.



For the record, Cuban-Americans are not among JFK fans, primarily because of the Bay of Pigs. 

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Cuba; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bombergap; brushfirewars; businesstaxcut; coldwar; jfk; kennedy; missilegap; presidents
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1 posted on 11/25/2017 10:56:38 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
He is extremely popular overseas, but the reasons are vague. No one can give you a specific reason or accomplishment.

Same with Obama.

2 posted on 11/25/2017 10:59:53 AM PST by plain talk
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To: SeekAndFind

He sure tricked those Japanese into running over his boat.


3 posted on 11/25/2017 11:02:22 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: SeekAndFind

A second look???
OK.

No matter what/any faults anyone might bring up....at the very least, THE VERRRRRY LEAST!!!!!!!!!!!! ~ at least he came out shortly b4 his death and DIRECTLY informed WE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE wtf was going on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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We were lucky to have him for that short time, as we do POTUS.45 TRUMP now...IF We Can keep Him!!!!!!!!!!!!
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4 posted on 11/25/2017 11:03:18 AM PST by gunnyg ("A Constitution changed from Freedom, can never be restored; Liberty, once lost, is lost forever...)
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To: SeekAndFind

He was a mixed bag from what I could tell but he seemed like he loved his country, wasn’t a big fan of socialism or high taxes.


5 posted on 11/25/2017 11:05:20 AM PST by Crucial
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To: gunnyg

Ike also tried...although he was pressured into deleting the word “congressional” from his farewell speech!

Re industrial, CONGRESSIONAL, military complex!!!!!
Whatever!
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6 posted on 11/25/2017 11:09:15 AM PST by gunnyg ("A Constitution changed from Freedom, can never be restored; Liberty, once lost, is lost forever...)
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To: Crucial

If they could have brought him back for any of the elections since Clinton, I’d much rather have voted for him than the Republican candidates we were given.


7 posted on 11/25/2017 11:09:37 AM PST by bigbob (People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
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To: SeekAndFind

Bump
To Read Later


8 posted on 11/25/2017 11:10:39 AM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: blueunicorn6
He sure tricked those Japanese into running over his boat.

Have the Japanese ever apologized for that?

9 posted on 11/25/2017 11:10:48 AM PST by Cowboy Bob
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To: plain talk
He is extremely popular overseas, but the reasons are vague. No one can give you a specific reason or accomplishment.

He approved HUGE sums of US aid to countries all over Europe, South / Central America and Asia. Anyone think that was a factor?

10 posted on 11/25/2017 11:14:50 AM PST by Don Corleone (.leave the gun, take the canolis, take it to the mattress.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The Bay of Pigs failed largely due to President Kennedy breaking his promise to provide air cover.


11 posted on 11/25/2017 11:18:16 AM PST by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: Crucial

His speech to the Economic Club of New York in 1962 makes the case for tax cuts brilliantly. It should be must viewing as we move through yet another debate on taxes.


13 posted on 11/25/2017 11:20:44 AM PST by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: Cowboy Bob
Have the Japanese ever apologized for that?

I think Obama apologized for the marring of the paint on the IJN destroyer.

14 posted on 11/25/2017 11:20:55 AM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: SeekAndFind

Shouldnt that be, It’s time for the millionth second look?


15 posted on 11/25/2017 11:23:15 AM PST by Leep (Less talk more ACTiON!)
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To: SeekAndFind
Every modern Democrat embraces Kennedy.

Huh? Most modern Democrats have gone so far left that JFK looks like he was to the right of Barry Goldwater.

16 posted on 11/25/2017 11:28:25 AM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Kennedy and Camelot... so beautiful and glamorous on the surface. But dig just a little bit and it gets very ugly very fast.


17 posted on 11/25/2017 11:31:05 AM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Commentary: It's always been our duty to report the truth. So why'd it take so lo tong?

By Dan K Thommason

Excerpted. Go the link below to see how this ties in with Democrats and their mediots from JFK to their current perverts in DC and Follywood!

https://www.google.com/search?q=reporting+the+truth+why+did+it+take+so+long+by+dan+k.+thomasson&rlz=1CAACAO_enUS770US770&oq=Repor&aqs=chrome.3.69i57j0l2j69i59j69i60j69i61.6409j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

18 posted on 11/25/2017 11:33:19 AM PST by Grampa Dave (The fastest way to drain the swamp is to simply expose it! Sunlight does aid in evaporation!)
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To: SeekAndFind

I thought they were going to review his term of affairs ...


19 posted on 11/25/2017 11:34:31 AM PST by Tunehead54
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Unfortunately, not all the backgrounds of all potuses (”so-called”) are open to scrutiny...

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20 posted on 11/25/2017 11:42:38 AM PST by gunnyg ("A Constitution changed from Freedom, can never be restored; Liberty, once lost, is lost forever...)
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