Guardian: Reports " JFK: declassified documents reveal a cunning and cagey president..Back channels to the Soviets, the ‘girlfriend system’ and doubts about LBJ: historian Timothy Naftali paints a portrait of a President Kennedy ‘far more interesting intellectually and far less appealing personally’ "
Lets Get Real:
The REAL JFK, is far different from the liberal hero, he was very complex, and only allowed some people to see different parts of his persona. Of course it was a different era, his affairs, were kept secret by the White House and the press, by doing this the press allowed JFK to think that he could get away with things, that even then would have bought down any other politician. President Kennedy is heroic, he had to deal with constant back pain, his health condition was also kept secret, it was said that Jackie O thought if he had survived he would have been a in a wheelchair in his 2nd term. On the World stage Kennedy earned his pay for his actions over Cuba, by not hitting Soviet missiles when they shot down a U2, and doing a secret deal with the Russians over missiles in Turkey. The major failure of the Kennedy Administration was South Vietnam, the Kennedy Administration gave a green light for the overthrow of Diem, and kept secret the role of the US in those actions, also by the time of Kennedy's death the US policy in Vietnam was a bloody mess.
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