134. Kinuachdrach:

Thanks for the clarification and additional details on Eisenhower’s farewell speech. He was, and is, a much underappreciated President. For one thing, he was an actual grownup, a quality sorely lacking in much of today’s governing elite.

I recall how so many Americans reacted to JFK’s candidacy which reminds me of the Obama phenomenon. Many Americans chose to vote for JFK because they were ‘tired of that stuffy old Eisenhower and his morose VP;’ they wanted ‘glamour,’ and I suppose they got it. Kennedy may have ‘won’ because of Chicago-based voter fraud (ironic, isn’t it?), and proceeded to: 1)show himself as weak to Kruschev — thus precipitating the Missile Crisis, and 2) make a mess of the Bay of Pigs effort, and 3) seemed unable to keep his pants zipped.