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Another Perspective
When Democrats Were Cold Warriors
What a different breed of men they were.
Today marks the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s presidency, beginning with his historic inaugural address. Liberals remember the inaugural for the famous phrase, “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.” To the progressive mind, it’s a call for government service, an exhortation to give back to the federal government what the federal government, in its benevolence, has given you.
Much less remarked upon was Kennedy’s defense of individual rights, freedom, a hawkish foreign policy, and resistance of atheistic communism. The quite brief inaugural didn’t shy from faith, quoting Scripture, with timeless affirmations like “the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God.” Kennedy issued a remarkably hawkish pledge: “Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe [emphasis original], to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”
The address was an unashamed expression of American exceptionalism. The newly minted president proclaimed that in the long history of the world, only a few generations were granted the awesome role of “defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger.” And he, as an American, welcomed that role: “I do not shrink from this responsibility — I welcome it.” In a very Reagan-like, “Shining City” sentiment, Kennedy claimed that the energy, faith, and devotion brought to that historic endeavor “will light our country,” and “the glow from that fire can truly light the world.”
Alas, the concluding sentence in the inaugural asserted: “[L]et us go forth … asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God’s work must truly be our own.”
It’s crucial to bear in mind that this was hardly atypical of Kennedy, or his family, for that matter, most of whom were, among other things, intense anti-communists who despised the Soviet Union. Even RFK, remembered as a liberal, had once worked as staff counsel for Joe McCarthy. In fact, McCarthy was godfather to one of RFK’s daughters. No kidding, look it up — and tell that one to your favorite liberal.
Beyond the inaugural, on other occasions, JFK warned of America’s “atheistic foe.” The “fanaticism and fury” of Soviet communism and the “communist conspiracy,” said Kennedy with foreboding, “represents a final enslavement.” In language indistinguishable from Ronald Reagan in the 1980s, Kennedy claimed: “The enemy is the communist system itself — implacable, insatiable, unceasing in its drive for world domination…. This [is] a struggle for supremacy between two conflicting ideologies: freedom under God versus ruthless, godless tyranny.”
We see in these early Cold War years the Democrat consensus that communism was evil. The scorching anti-communist rhetoric of Democrats like JFK and Harry Truman, and even a liberal like Adlai Stevenson, was the norm, and differed vastly from Democrats today or even during the Reagan era.
In that respect, JFK’s unyielding anti-communism is a sign of more than just the man himself. It’s a sign of the demise of a once great political party. Consider two brief contrasts, both from the Northeast of all places: Senator Ted Kennedy vs. his brother, Senator John Kennedy, and Senator Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) vs. his father, Senator Thomas Dodd (D-Conn.).
It is impossible to picture Ted Kennedy in the 1980s invoking the words of his late brother, alerting America to the perils of the “godless” “communist conspiracy.” Ted instead torched presidents like Ronald Reagan, who sounded more like Ted’s brother than Ted did. In fact, as I’ve written at length elsewhere (click here and here), Ted Kennedy’s private, back-channel overture to Soviet despot Yuri Andropov, intended to undermine President Reagan’s defense policies and even re-election prospects, were scandalous, and have never received the attention and condemnation they merit.
Likewise, Ted’s pal and Senate colleague, Chris Dodd, would have never chastised his fellow liberals as “deluded” “innocents,” as “unwitting” and “muddle-headed” “naïve sentimentalists,” saddled with “confusion” over communism and “communist political warfare” — as had Dodd’s father. In fact, Chris’s dad served on the Senate Judiciary Committee that summoned shady characters such as Obama mentor and secret Communist Party member, Frank Marshall Davis (click here), to testify on his numerous communist associations. How’s that for a contrast?
For modern liberals like Chris Dodd and Ted Kennedy, the apple fell far from the tree.
Then there were Cold Warriors like Scoop Jackson, Sam Nunn, Zbigniew Brzezinski, James Eastland, Francis Walter, Edwin Willis, Richard Russell, union leaders like Lane Kirkland, savvy intellectuals like Lionel Trilling. None of these Democrats were dupes. Some led America in intense Cold War showdowns.
And here’s a shocker for modern progressives and conservatives alike: The first pursuers of American communists were Democrats Woodrow Wilson and his attorney general, Alexander Mitchell Palmer. For all his faults, Wilson understood the dangers of Bolshevism.
Wilson was followed by a long line of anti-communist Democrats who headed the Congressional committees that liberals have demonized, from the first to final chair of the House Committee on Un-American Activities: Rep. Martin Dies (D-TX), Rep. Francis Walter (D-PA), Rep. Richard Ichord (D-MO). In the Senate, James Eastland (D-Miss.) and Thomas Dodd were pillars on the Judiciary Committee and chair and vice chair of the Subcommittee on Internal Security, the latter of which did the best Senate work in pursuit of domestic communists loyal to the USSR.
In sum, this is not your grandfather’s Democratic Party. The 2011 Democrat from the Northeast is not the 1961 Democrat from the Northeast. The party of Pelosi, Reid, and Obama is not the party of JFK, Truman, and Scoop Jackson. Today, the 50th anniversary of JFK’s inaugural, is a poignant reminder of the Democrats’ demise.
About the Author
Paul Kengor is professor of political science and executive director of The Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College. He is author of the new book The Communist: Frank Marshall Davis, The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mentor. His other books include The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism and Dupes: How America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century.
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Ken (Old Texican)| 1.20.11 @ 8:21AM
Paul,
Thank you for that retrospective. Well done.
For over two years here I have been calling Obama and crew "communists", (pardon the shorthand).
Statists, is Mark Levin's term. Corporatists is an apt description as well.
It is actually a pretty small group of people in the US.
The so-called "Liberals" are the umpteen million dupes following them along without a clue to the consequences.
Our government's indebtedness to the communist Chinese is a mind blowing disgrace....just mind blowing.
The truly sad part is that the votes of the dupes is the same value as mine. It is like having "universal suffrage" down to the age of five.
A whole lot of those dupes function on the level of a five year old. They want to eat the "ice-cream" until they puke, then leave it up us productive adults to clean up the mess.
MikeD| 1.20.11 @ 7:46PM
While I certainly agree that JFK was an American first and a democrat second, unlike the America hating pit of vipers currently polluting our government; he was still the author of one very deadly effort that is currently more dangerous to our Country than every communist in the world: the poison of government union pensions.
The first thing JFK did after his inauguration was to issue an EXECUTIVE ORDER mandating that public employees had the right to collective bargaining and the right to strike. Add 50 years of spineless politicians who gave the unions anything they wanted and VOILA! OUR DEADLY FISCAL CRISIS! Thanks very much JFK.
I just wish this current crop of treasonous demoncraps could magically be transported back to 1961; but, barring that, how about instantaneous transport anywhere outside the United States of America. Because, with their horrible attitudes, beliefs, and actions, they are clearly NOT real Americans. Liberalism is very clearly a mental disorder because nobody with a mind or basic education could ever actually believe all the crap barry the muslim and his fellow thugs are inflicting on us.
scythe| 1.20.11 @ 8:39AM
"Breed" of men? Try just the word men. Because every "male" of the left has morphed over the past few decades into a pre-menopausal ninny who has become more in touch with his "feminine" side than most women I know. In fact the "Woman's Movement" was a spectacular success, scrubbing every vestige of masculine virtues from the esteem they once held, encouraging women to act more manly, and men to wussify themselves. It was/is part of the ongoing Antonio Gramscian Marxist Cultural Revolution: communism without firing a shot.
bookworm| 1.20.11 @ 7:45PM
Spot on! And the churches have been no help at all. Find me a Christian man who's a manly man, and I'll marry him.
BackToBasics| 1.21.11 @ 1:09AM
My wife and I attend sporadically because of the prevasivenss of rock and roll "worship" and troubles we have seen in the top leadership in many churches.
However, I will also say that many of the men in church who are not leaders are often good men. They may seem weak in some ways but they are merely trying to please the Lord in the best way they know how. My advice would be to look for a smart man and look more at his strengths than his weaknesses. A good wife can help turn a regular, smart man into a strong man who is good in leadership in the home, church, work, business, politics, etc. Focus on and find the strengths first, they are there for the good man.
BackToBasics| 1.21.11 @ 1:26AM
On the practical side it may be easier to find someone at a home Bible study than at a church. If you cannot find a good church at least look for a Home Bible study and there you can most often get to know people better than in a church setting.
Lullabys, Legends and Lies| 1.20.11 @ 9:09AM
I'm curious, did President Kennedy's line "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country", get any mention in the press at the time he delivered it, or did they go back and find it again after Dallas? I wasn't around at the time, so I don't remember, but I'm willing to bet that nobody really thought that line was "great" until after he was killed.
The Democratic Party has fallen far in the last 50 years, today we've got 70 members of Congress who are members, or are proudly associated with the Socialist Party of America (SPUSA). Cod War Warriors my ass!!
Ed| 1.20.11 @ 10:09AM
I was in grade school during the JFK Administration. The phrase "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country", got enormous publicity at the time. JFK certainly had his faults, but he was a fierce patriot and Cold Warrior.
When he announced, the NASA Moon program, the country was electrified. During my lifetime, only President Reagan could give as good a speech as JFK, nobody else was even close. It was a very different time, and a very different country back then.
MikeD| 1.20.11 @ 7:53PM
And, when George Bush announced an effort to send us to Mars, all the demoncraps and their willing lackies in the media did was heap ridicule on the President of the United States for being an insane dreamer and a mindless spendthrift...until barry the muslim proposed the same thing. Suddenly, it was the best thing since sliced bread! Their hypocricy knows no bounds. Even little kids know they are worthless, lying pieces of pond scum. Vitriolic language? You bet! It would be worse, but I do respect the bounds of civil dialog, unlike the trolls on the left. If anybody on the right said half the things the libs did about President Bush, we'd see the black helicopters whirling outside our windows. GOP: Remember the double standard and get angry every day for the next two years; and then every day till we rid our Country of these traitors and criminals; starting with "you know who".
RN in Houston| 1.20.11 @ 3:51PM
Much has been made of JFK and his anti-communism and pro-market tendencies as evidenced by his tax cuts. However, the "ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country" flies in the face of the pro-market outlook. Remember, Adam Smith wrote that the invisible hand [of the economy] is caused by an individual pursuing his own self-interest which promotes the good of society more than if he purposively tries to promote society as those on he left claim to do so today. So what did Kennedy mean when he said "ask not what your country can do for you....."? Was he, in fact, reflecting a statist tendency?
Richard Baker| 1.20.11 @ 10:01AM
Of the list of Old Cold Warriors I would leave out Brzezinski. When he worked for Carter he reflected the Georgian's peculiar view of the world. Strange how before and after Carter he had that reputation as a Cold Warrior. You could look it up. The one I miss is Henry Jackson as Cold Warrior.
Alan Brooks| 1.21.11 @ 12:29AM
Yeah, Georgian evangelistic mush-headedness.
Anthony| 1.20.11 @ 11:05AM
"We must be the great arsenal of democracy".
FDR: Fireside Chat 12/29/1940
Today's American Democratic Party would call that statement unduly provocative, dangerously militaristic, and hopelessly outmoded and outdated.
Will America survive the Democrat Party?
MikeD| 1.20.11 @ 8:01PM
If today's dems/libs were in power on Dec. 7th, 1941; they's have apologized to the Japanese for not respecting their culture sufficiently. Then, they'd have given them and the Germans "Most Favored Nation" status to atone for our nasty attitude in depriving the Germans of their "Historical Cultural Boundaries" when all they were doing was asserting their age-old rights to the Germanic speaking lands they clearly deserved after the dastardly Americans and French and English so cruelly deprived them of their rights and possessions during that American led misunderstanding in 1914. (This is the world's longest sentence!)
Yup, we're always the evil ones as far as the lefties/libs are concerned. And they'll lie, cheat and steal to prove the point. Like they are in the whole "Glo-bull Warming" thing; and the healthcare abomination. (No Death Panels? Just wait till Christmas!) No abortion in it? Just kidding... And on and on and on; ad nauseum.
Alan Brooks| 1.21.11 @ 12:27AM
"Then, they'd have given them and the Germans "Most Favored Nation" status to atone for our nasty attitude in depriving the Germans of their "Historical Cultural Boundaries" when all they were doing was asserting their age-old rights to the Germanic speaking lands they clearly deserved after the dastardly Americans and French and English so cruelly deprived them of their rights and possessions during that American led misunderstanding in 1914. (This is the world's longest sentence!)"
Is the sentence long enough to convince Pat Buchanan? did you read his book? Why do you even insinuate, any of you, that it is only the Left that is pro- totalist?
Howard| 1.20.11 @ 11:15AM
The turning point for Liberals/Democrats was Vietnam. This war was expanded by Liberals and was designed to stop the spread of Communism in Asia. The constants months of war, student demonstrations, and the Tet Offensive changed the mindset of Liberals.
In place of LBJ, you got George McGovern. The Democrats put their emphasis on soft diplomacy; as they felt the Soviet Union wasn't quite the monster that earlier Liberals felt it was.
This was shown by Ted Kennedy running against Carter in 1980. This was the culmination of Liberalism going down for the count (or so we thought).
However, sadly, we now have the Obama, Reid, and Pelosi wing still in full flower. We need to be vigilant, as these people will not defend our country, and are more interested in creating a Nanny State.
MikeD| 1.20.11 @ 8:05PM
Look at the history books and the crap the left-media spews: "Everybody KNOWS that the Republicans started that nasty war in Vietnam". And "Everybody knows" that Nixon really kept it going, even after the heroic LBJ tried his best to stop it. Wait! Didn't LBJ come BEFORE Richard Nixon? No worries, the media will just rewrite it all to make the story what they want it to be. They do it every day; and then wonder why nobody reads newspapers any more or watches the old network news.
Drew| 1.20.11 @ 11:22AM
I hate to spoil the party, but in case anyone missed it - the threat of "Communism" pretty much disappeared somewhere around twenty years ago. Ergo, there really isn't much need for any sensible American politican to be a "Cold Warrior" anymore.
To be sure, there exist a handful of nominally "Communist" countries: Cuba, North Korea, and China. Of these the first represents little more than a potential nuclear terrorist, the second an economic basketcase awaiting an inevitable collapse (and moreover whatever "Communist" pretensions it has are buttressed - rather than threatened - by American military hawkishness.)
America's professional military has taken great strides to avoid the (cliched) fault of training its leadership to fight the previous war. Today our military academies and war colleges train officers in cyberwarfare and counterinsurgency - not how to fight tank battles in the Fulda Gap.
Its about time our Conservative politicians - and pundits - got with the program. "Communism" is yesterday's battle. The threats our country faces lie in isses such as global warming, energy policy, healthcare, and structural unemployment.
Jacob Morgan| 1.20.11 @ 4:41PM
Communisim is more an outlook on life than it is an economic program. It is atheistic approach to "scientificly" create a utopia without regard for the individual. It is a small cadre calling the shots for everyone else, who are to be controlled and molded and informed for their own good, or for the good of tomorrow. A good they have no hand in defining, using methods that have no mercy. In that regard a whole lot of "public servants" and a whole lot of the media and the academy are still reds. Russia, despite Yeltsin and the early enthusiasim, is reverting and is pulling in some of the weaker neighbors. Portions of South America are reverting. China just changed economic tactics while keeping the communist strategy.
Militarily communisim is alive and well in places like mainland China, and becoming more dangerous by the moment. Communists will air-brush democracy from the history books given a chance. In this century there will be a war for the soul of the world--freedom with its imperfections or a glorious giving in to dictators who promise (and in China have to some degree delivered) material well being and national pride. Who wants democracy with power chaning hands every so many years in a schizophrenzic convulsion? Who wants responsibility? Who does not want bread and circuses?
Why is China spending so much on a military when so many in China live in poverty? Who are they going to defend themselves against? They plan on defending themselves against the very concept of democracy by facing it down and isolating it and humiliating it and destroying it when and where they calculate they can get away with it.
Having clean air and health care is worth nothing for my children if they are not free to have what religion they want, not free to say what they want, not free to associate as they will, and governed by those they cannot vote for or against.
Doctor Right| 1.20.11 @ 5:36PM
Ummmm...Drew? Hate to spoil your party, but for over 50 years, Conservatives who were screaming about the threat of Communism were called cranks and fascists by liberal Democrats who denied there was ever a threat to begin with.
Now that we know that there WAS a significant threat, these same liberals are trying to rewrite history to make themselves look like cold-warriors instead of appeasers.
You understand the appeasers, don't you Drew? There the kind who think that North Korea is only a threat because of US aggression, or that China is our friend. Idiots, in other words.
Thank God there were men and women willing to stand up to "yesterday's battle", Drew.
And by the way, if you equate the nonexistent threat of the hoax known as "global warming" with the struggle against global communism, you REALLY are a moron.
bookworm| 1.20.11 @ 8:17PM
Modern liberalism is deeply informed by Marxism. Feminists uses the nomenclature of Marxism, as do the self-appointed civil rights spokesmen. Marxism is a poisoned well: check out what Richard Wurmbrand and Alexander Solzhenitsyn had to say about this. It has all the fury of hell behind it. Legalized abortion, the "war on Christmas," organized homosexuals attacking the Boy Scouts (!), same-sex marriage, now the destruction of military culture -- ALL of this came about as a result of communist influence, and liberals have behaved throughout like the proverbial deers stunned by the headlights.
Petronius| 1.20.11 @ 11:45AM
True enough. Where we once had Robert Young and Stuart Symington, we now have closet commie Lacy Clay, Claire McCaskill, and this year's Carnahan. Same old more debt, more grape koolaid, and pay no attention to that man in the oval office and the other one behind the curtain from Chicago. And don't expect much from Senator Blunt either.
Richard Baker| 1.20.11 @ 12:31PM
Drew:
Islam is synonymous with Communisn... soooo then maybe a Cold Warrior mentality is still relevant. Yes, Soviet communism is gone to be replaced with a budding murderous Islamic worldwide theocracy. Dictators are the same regardless of the time and country. The truth of it all is that without oil the world would positively ignore the folks of SW Asia and let them live their crazy Arabian Nights life. The sooner the US starts using its own energy sources will hasten that positive ignoring. Drill, baby, drill.
Joe D.| 1.20.11 @ 12:52PM
Paul Kengor that is funny you would say that about Wilson since he was such a good progressive and gave us WWII with the WWI treaty, etc.
Nick| 1.20.11 @ 2:41PM
For over 80 years there were, basically, 3 types of democrats.
Democrats who were anti-communist.
Democrats who claimed they were anti-communist, but really weren't.
And, democrats who were communist sympathizers.
The anti-communist democrat is almost extinct.
Mark in LA| 1.20.11 @ 2:54PM
While the USSR was a definite threat, what exactly did we get out of Korea or Vietnam that made the money and lives lost worth it?
Vietnam still became communist just like the rest of French Indochina and nothing happened here.
Face facts, it was a stupid policy that wasted lives on both sides and we got absolutely nothing for it.
Nick| 1.20.11 @ 2:56PM
Mark in LA,
"Vietnam still became communist just like the rest of French Indochina and nothing happened here."
Yes, thanks to democrats.
Mark in LA| 1.20.11 @ 3:25PM
Nick, don't you realize how stupid this thinking is. How was YOUR life or the life of any other AMERICAN (except those killed and maimed in the war) affected by Vietnam being communist?
Nick| 1.20.11 @ 5:38PM
Mark in LA,
The only one thinking stupidly, here, is you.
First, all the sons and daughters born to American GIs over there were profoundly affected by South Viet Nam being overrun by the communists.
After they were done with Southeast Asia, the Soviets were then able to pour more resources into Africa and Central America.
We also had a treaty with South Viet Nam. Don't you believe that America should keep its commitments, Mark?
bookworm| 1.20.11 @ 8:04PM
Ask the boat people -- most of whom (the ones who survived) are now very loyal Americans
Jacob Morgan| 1.20.11 @ 4:56PM
"Hang together or hang seperately"
Those who would be free must band together. We got out of it what we got out of going to Europe in WWII.
For people who grew up in South Korea since the war, instead of growing up in what would have been one big North Korea--they got a lot out of it.
Vietnam might have been won and those living freely would have gotten a lot out of it as well. Would the Soviets have invaded Afghanistan five years after the Vietnam war if South Vietnam had been freed? Would the Soviets have probed as much in South America in the 1980's if South Vietnam had been won? There were consequences.
Democracy is the most dangerous idea in the last couple of milenia. Dictators will wipe it off the globe if they can. Against that, hang together or hang.
GaryinDelta| 1.20.11 @ 3:39PM
Why didn't I learn this in school? We did learn it was a right wing "climate of hate" that inspired the 1963 tragedy in Dallas. But to this day, the young must find on their own that JFK's killer was a committed Marxist.
REB| 1.20.11 @ 7:25PM
Anyone who tells you communisum is not a threat is either a fool or a communist!
Obama is a marxist,he is in our White House entertaining and kissing up to a communist butcher....wake up!
Sonny| 1.20.11 @ 10:44PM
President JFK, would even recognize the Democratic Party of today, as the radical far leftwing Liberal Progressive Socialist Marxist Obamacrats, have all but hijacked the Party of Kennedy and Camelot.. They have perverted, subverted, and poisoned the Party to no ends..
I remeber when my Father was a JFK democrat, but after Carter, he and my Family became Reagan Democrats, and after I enlisted in the US Military in 1979, I realized I was a Reagan Conservative Republican, and I never looked back since.
After Reagan, Bush 41, all but abandoned Constitutional Conservative Reaganism, for Liberal Party Blue Blood Republicanism.. and the down hill slide has been ever since, especially after Bush 43 took over.. a Tax and Spend Liberal, is a Tax and Spend Liberal, no matter what Party they come from..
But, after Obama and the radical hard leftwing Liberals took over the Party from the Patriotic moderate Kennedy Cold War fighting Democrats, it has no longer been the same Party, and they have all but destroyed the Democratic Party, as it once was, and as you know see it, that;s what it is.. an Anti-American, Anti-US Constitutional, Liberal Socialist Marxist Entity... with just one goal, to destroy America as we know it.. and with their Propagandist media minster's and their racist hate mongering useful idiots in the streets, they are now Revolutionary Thugs and Punks..
Eyes Wide Open| 1.21.11 @ 7:34AM
I have been reading some previously suppressed primary source documents from the annuls of history, which Charlotte Iserbyt, a former #2 at the Dept of Ed. under Regan, and anti-communist whistle-blower, has scanned and uploaded to the internet for all to download freely... for now. She paid $3000 in 1975 for the last remaining transcripts of the congressional hearings detailing the Communistic, subversive activities of the huge non-profit tax-exempt organizations, including the Ford, and Carnegie. Every other transcript had been tracked down, bought up, and destroyed by the foundations' minions. The man who sold this copy to Charlotte was offered "any amount" by Carnegie minions, but refused. It is posted for your download to be distributed to all truth-lovers, as well as hundreds of other documents, detailing things you won't find in history textbooks today, or since the 1930s for that matter.
Wow! I have had my eyes opened, and have to say that we have all been duped! As a public school teacher I have been keenly aware of the subversion of the educational system since the early 90's. I recall reading Beverly Eakman's scholarly and exhaustively-documented masterpiece, "EDUCATING FOR THE NEW WORLD ORDER," and reeling from the vortex of deception, I and everyone else had idealistically embraced. While we are distracted by our political activities, the shadow government is working behind our backs, like the great Oz, behind the curtain. Our two- party system is a ruse, and has become two flavors of the same poison (particularly at the top levels) keeping us preoccupied with party politics, while our country is being driven by those in the shadows. Just look at some of the unAmerican policies of NAFTA, and other proNWO policies put into place by both Bushes! Much of what they did has further jeopardized our sovereignty. All while waving the American flag and smiling warmly, our nation, under God, has been sold to China, and "sold out" to Russia, while the appearance of "choice" in the political parties keeps us busy.
I urge all of you to read, and download, these documents before they are removed from the free internet, and lost forever.
Her website is : www.americandeception.com. Some of this is US govt. documentation, some others are preserved, un-tainted by revisionism, history books, still others are political editorials of contemporary watchdogs throughout the 19th ant 20th centuries.
RCV| 1.22.11 @ 8:05PM
Where do you people come up with this nonsense? The story of foundations trying to "buy up" every transcript of the hearings on communism but the "last one" being saved by a brave patriot is pure unadulterated fiction. The hearings are well-preserved and available at the Library of Congress for anyone who wants to read them. What conspiratorial garbage gets peddled here!
Michael| 1.21.11 @ 7:52AM
Mr. Kengor I've read "Dupes" and "The Crusader" both are excellent books. Must reads, but to portray JFK as a Cold Worrier really is a not true. I'm 49 and have been told all these glorious stories about JFK all my life. I have read and educated myself on JFK. He blew the Bay Of Pigs and almost caused a Nuclear War from his weakness, cause every person in Cuba to lose there private property and left a Communist Dictator 90 miles off the coast of America. That does not make a stong anti-communist Cold Warrrior to me. He cause unheard of tradjety for so many. He was not great he was a weak leader. Do you think Nixon or to put it straight say Reagan would have done what JFK did? No they would of have defended freedom and private property. God Bless. Thats just how I see it.
RCV| 1.21.11 @ 1:19PM
The Bay of Pigs operation was a disaster from the moment it was conceived. JFK's only mistake was not countermanding the operation as soon as he learned of it. It was doomed to failure because there was no indigenous uprising to support it -- the Cuban people were still in the thrall of the success of the Revolution, and the full tyranny of Castro not yet known to them.
Richard Baker| 1.22.11 @ 9:15AM
I remember watching TV after the assassination and it was well known from the broadcasts that Oswald had been to Moscow and married a Russian woman, and that the Soviets rejected him, and he was shown giving out leaflets in New Orleans for the Fair Play for Cuba Committee and was beaten up for his trouble. That picture of him holding the rifle with a pistol on his hip was also shown. This was all broadcast at the outset of the reporting of this terrible episode. The country knew he was a Communist. That was one reason that the Russians and Fidel were suspect. It appears the Kennedy family just couldn't stand the fact that Jack had been killed by this inconsequential, in Kennedy terms, loser. I say to all of you, regardless of your feelings towards any President, the country does not need to have another assassination. Ask those who were alive then to describe the national gloom.
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العاب بنات | 4.11.12 @ 2:24PM
When he announced, the NASA Moon program, the country was electrified. During my lifetime, only President Reagan could give as good a speech as JFK, nobody else was even close. It was a very different time, and a very different country back then.