![]() ![]() ![]() Nikita lectured to him on liberation struggles in the Third World and walked away with the impression JFK was soft. Kennedy called his meeting with Khrushchev in Vienna in 1961 "the most humiliating experience of my life". This approach to the presidency as a public relations job would come to haunt his short term in office and on several occasions nearly lead to war with the Russians. In 1960 Kennedy wisely decided he could not run against the legacy of the popular Eisenhower, whom he privately called "that old asshole", and chose instead a campaign of all shine and no substance. Journalist Richard Reeves set out to write one kind of book, making the case for Kennedy as a great achiever, and wound up producing the opposite a volume on the Kennedy years (1961-1963), based primarily on JFK's White House tapes, that portray him as a ditherer and bumbler on the two most important issues of the day, the Cold War and civil rights. ![]() Kennedy was a mediocre president, unless you are Noam Chomsky, in which case you call him dangerous and duplicitous. The most heretical thing you can say in regards to modern U.S. Kennedy will go down in history as the president who got laid a lot."-VARIETY "Since American schools don't teach history anymore and most Americans don't read it is quite likely John F. ![]()
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