JFK

C J Campbell wrote:


In many respects JFK WAS an extreme right winger.




Maybe rather than blindly follow any specific "ideology", he tried to do
what was best for the people of his country, regardless of whether it
was perceived as "left", or "right".

I had just seen his motorcade the day before in Amarillo Texas as he drove
by my house and was watching the happenings on TV.

I was 7

BT

"Big John" wrote in message
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40 years ago today I was ferrying a F-89J from the Maine Air Guard at
Bangor, ME to the Oregon Air Guard at Portland OR. Chugging along at
20K, keeping under the big jet stream blowing east, I was about 150
out of Oklahoma City, my next refueling stop, when ATC came up on
frequency and announced that President Kennedy had been shot in Dallas
and was dead.

May he rest in peace.

Big John

"Bob Fry" wrote:
JFK simply didn't get much done. But he was studly and that's what
counts in the world.

Exactly.

Presidents are elected on TV appeal, and JFK was prettier than Nixon. He
was a dangerous playboy with a penchant for international mischief, but
he had sex appeal that America couldn't resist - still can't. Reagan
was the quintessential TV president, revered now because he had the luck
to be sitting in the big chair when Soviet communism finally rotted to
pieces, even though his presidency was marked by colossal deficits, the
S&L debacle and sleazy dealings with scum in Iran and Central America.
But boy, he sure could say "God bless America" on TV like no one else!
We loved it!

Clinton and Bush? Same thing: they won because they were cuter on the
tube than their opponents.
--
Dan
C172RG at BFM

C J Campbell wrote:


Fidel still runs Cuba.



Kennedy saw do it that Fidel was not shooting at the USA. The fact that
Fidel still runs Cuba is the cumulative product of his genes and 40
years of USA foreign policy by quite a few presidents other than Kennedy.

What is it with the US policy about Cuba anyway? Fidel has not been a
serious threat in years. Would not a little more openess have helped
the USA's image with the people-on-the-street in Cuba??

If you cut off Cuba, why not China?

Dan Luke wrote:
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Presidents are elected on TV appeal, and JFK was prettier than Nixon. He
was a dangerous playboy with a penchant for international mischief, but
he had sex appeal that America couldn't resist - still can't. Reagan
was the quintessential TV president, revered now because he had the luck
to be sitting in the big chair when Soviet communism finally rotted to
pieces, even though his presidency was marked by colossal deficits, the
S&L debacle and sleazy dealings with scum in Iran and Central America.
But boy, he sure could say "God bless America" on TV like no one else!
We loved it!

Clinton and Bush? Same thing: they won because they were cuter on the
tube than their opponents.

Absolutely!

"Peter Duniho" wrote in message
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Um. Wrong three-initial president. Try FDR.


No, it was JFK.

"Icebound" wrote in message
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Maybe rather than blindly follow any specific "ideology", he tried to do
what was best for the people of his country, regardless of whether it
was perceived as "left", or "right".


Anyone who tries to to do what is best for the people of his country will
be labelled an extreme right winger.

("C J Campbell" wrote)
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He did claim to be a jelly donut (literal translation of "Ich bin ein
Berliner"), but the wall that went up on his watch came down on the hated
Reagan's watch.


Fall of The Wall was 1989 - Bush's watch.

Folks may have marched up to it on Reagan's watch, but it was Bush who was
on station when she toppled.

Nov 14, 1963 for JFK? Now this, the Fall of the Berlin Wall in the wrong
year - it's either that or it's the wrong prez for 1989.

People watch out for those dates in this thread. g

--
Montblack

"Ron Natalie" wrote in message
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"Keith McQueen" wrote in message
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Yeah. On November 22, 1963, I was happily celebrating my 8th birthday.
The announcement kind of ruined the whole day for me. The worse part is
that I get reminded of it every year by the media...

November 22 is Margy's birthday as well. I'm omit the year so as to not
incriminate
myself.

Do you mean "incriminate" or rather "endanger" yourself?

"G.R. Patterson III" wrote in message
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Ron Natalie wrote:

November 22 is Margy's birthday as well. I'm omit the year so as to
not incriminate
myself.

A wise man!

Nah!! Simply survival instincts.