…”we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend…”
Kennedy and Obama are both fine speakers. But talk is cheap. Kennedy and Obama are and were equally poor chief executives.
Two loyal and longstanding friends of the United States who Kennedy didn’t support, indeed cruelly betrayed, were Trujillo and Diem. Kennedy gave the nod for the assassination of both.
Kennedy didn’t pass a single piece of legislation during his entire time in office. Kennedy took the nation into Vietnam. Kennedy got cold feet and pulled the plug on loyal, American trained and armed Cubans along with their American advisers at the Bay of Pigs.
Kennedy negotiated the Cuban missile crisis high on amphetamines. Kennedy did everything he could to slow the march of civil rights and signed off on the wiretapping of MLK.
Catholic educators teach that Kennedy was among the greatest of American Presidents and compare him to FDR, Lincoln and Washington. The rest of us know better. Or should.
