An absurd politicization of scientific research that will weaken America.
JFK
Posted inPolitics
Trump’s War on John and Jackie Kennedy
From ripping up the White House Rose Garden to redoing Air Force One and the Kennedy Center, it’s Mar-a-Lago gilt versus Camelot taste.
Posted inBooks
How Khrushchev Underestimated Kennedy
A veteran correspondent’s memoir reveals the humanity and misjudgment of the Soviet leader who sparked the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Posted inBooks
Secretary of Enablement
Robert McNamara’s subservience to Lyndon Johnson led America to disaster in Vietnam.
Posted inJanuary/February/March 2023
Ted Kennedy’s Lonely Liberalism
Liberalism is under assault. Already having suffered decades of reputational damage after Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan battered the word into oblivion, it is now rare to ever hear it with a positive connotation. The right wing continues to equate it with moral decadence and fiscal recklessness, while the hard left of the Democratic Socialists […]
Posted inPolitical Animal
Priebus and Manafort Want to Move On from JFK Conspiracy
Did Rafael Cruz really assist in the assassination of JFK?
Posted inBooks, January/February 2014, Magazine, Politics
Letters from Camelot
Even in his private correspondence, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. was an unapologetic Kennedy partisan.
Posted inPolitics
A Second Emancipation
One hundred years after Lincoln signed the Proclamation, Martin Luther King Jr. tried unsuccessfully to get President John F. Kennedy to issue a second one. That failure changed the course of history.
