Bfgrn
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Sorry bout that,
Sorry bout that,
1. After reading parts of his diary, I can imagine he had a professional writer on staff to write all his great speeches, *One small step for man, etc,....*.
2. And I don't think he had a writer write his diary.
3. I am not making up anything JFK wrote, I am just reading it, like everyone else and I am honest.
4. I hate that he looked at Hitler the way he did, and this diminishes his life considerably.
5. This is a major black eye to his memory and legacy, in my opinion.
Regards,
SirJamesofTexas
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
You have a right to your opinion, but you can't make things up.
President Kennedy DIDN'T say:
*significant valued person*
*Great Man*
*Hero*
YOU DID...
President Kennedy DID say:
"He had boundless ambition for his country which rendered him a menace to the peace of the world"
menace: danger; pest
Synonyms: hazard, intimidation, jeopardy, nuisance, peril, plague, risk, scare, threat, thunder, trouble, troublemaker, warning
As someone who has studied our 35th President, I honestly believe we have President Kennedy to thank for the conversation we are having today. Had he acted like a megalomaniac, which Hitler was, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, America would have been forces to engage in a nuclear war.
BTW, "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" was Astronaut Neil Armstrong
1. Okay you got me on the Neil Armstong quote, I was thinking more about that other JFK quote, "Ask not what your country can do for you but,..."
2. That was my bad, sorry.
3. What JFK was saying about Hitler is he in a way admired the man, *hero* status is implied, maybe not using those words, but its the jist of his diary, face it, see the op.
4. I wish it wasn't but it is.
Regards,
SirJamesofTexas
JFK didn't use the word hero, he DID use the word menace. You keep avoiding my question:
If Hitler really was President Kennedy's hero like you are trying to portray, can you name ONE thing he did as President that would support your claim?
Kennedy often said he wanted his epitaph to be "He kept the peace." Even Khrushchev and Castro, Kennedy's toughest foreign adversaries, came to appreciate J.F.K.'s commitment to that goal. The roly-poly Soviet leader, clowning and growling, had thrown the young President off his game when they met at the Vienna summit in 1961. But after weathering storms like the Cuban missile crisis, the two leaders had settled into a mutually respectful quest for détente. When Khrushchev got the news from Dallas in November 1963, he broke down and sobbed in the Kremlin, unable to perform his duties for days. Despite his youth, Kennedy was a "real statesman," Khrushchev later wrote in his memoir, after he was pushed from power less than a year following J.F.K.'s death. If Kennedy had lived, he wrote, the two men could have brought peace to the world.
Read more: Warrior For Peace - The Lessons of J.F.K. - TIME