Sandpoint Woman Worked For JFK

10 comments on this post so far. Add yours!

• 

  Escapee on May 03 at 10:07 a.m.

  Hard to know the answer to that…I’m currently reading “Four Days In November” by Vincent Bugliosi (author of the Helter Skelter book), Bugliosi writes (and I’m paraphrasing here), that after Jackie Kennedy and newly-sworn-in President Johnson arrived, with JFK’s body, back in Washington DC, towards the end of the night, Bobby was heard in his room, crying and shouting something along the lines of “Why, God…everything was beginning to work so well.”

  Yeah, Kennedy had made some mistakes in his Presidency (as all Presidents do), but I’m sure he would’ve been re-elected in 1964. Historians say that Kennedy could’ve been a really great President and he was on the way to becoming that when he was mercilessly gunned down. Kennedy had said, regarding Vietnam, that (again, paraphrasing), the U.S. would continue to help Vietnam, but it was Vietnam who would bear the brunt of the fighting, not the U.S. Kennedy had forced the Russians & Cubans to back down (the missile crisis) and had also dealt with race relations, a real ‘hotbed’ issue back then. So I, too, think JFK could’ve been a really great President.

  As I’ve been working my way through the “Four Days In November” book, at first I didn’t want to read the part where the Assassination occurs, ‘cos I wanted to keep JFK ‘alive’, and maybe I could do that if I didn’t read any further. I’ve wondered, as millions of others have, about “what could’ve been” when I think about JFK. I was only 9 when he died, so I didn’t have much of a clue then, but having read so much Kennedy material recently, it’s saddening, it’s shocking and it’s horrifying, knowing all the details to what happened back in November 1963, and I get a sense, now, about what people felt back then. It’s awful and is really, really depressing.

  Can’t you see JFK, winding down his Presidency in 1968, and handing the Presidential Baton off to Bobby Kennedy? I’m pretty sure the last 40-plus years would’ve been a lot different had both Kennedys not been cut down in their prime.

• 

  sue on May 03 at 10:11 a.m.

  In spite of his apparent personal failings, he was nothing short of inspirational. He was the definition of hope and change.

  Good article by Patty Hutchens, btw, and outstanding Plonka photo.

• 

  cdajim on May 03 at 10:36 a.m.

  Robert Dallek, in his outstanding book “An Unfinished Life, John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963”, presents a very detained picture of JFK’s life including his many health problems. Dallek, in an October, 2004 lecture here in Cd’A ,contended that JFK would have passed away at a relatively early age from one or more of those ailments.

• 

  irishman on May 03 at 12:34 p.m.

  I don’t know how things would’ve turned out had he lived; but i sure would’ve liked to have had the chance to find out.

• 

  Gary D Rhodes on May 03 at 12:45 p.m.

  JFK wouldn’t last long in today’s Democrat primaries.

• 

  Escapee on May 03 at 4:54 p.m.

  Maybe JFK might have not lasted long in today’s politics, but with his temper and sharp wit, I would’ve loved to see him take ‘em all on. And, JFK, in his present condition, would STILL have been a better President than George W. Bush.

• 

  Escapee on May 03 at 5:07 p.m.

  Robert Dallek (referred to above by cdajim), has been interviewed quite a few times regarding JFK’s Health problems. When Lyndon Johnson was campaigning against JFK, Lyndon alluded to Kennedy’s health, at which time Kennedy forced his doctors to lie and say that he, JFK, was in excellent health. So maybe JFK gave Johnson the vice-presidency in exchange for his silence regarding JFK’s health? Sometimes digging into the past ain’t all that much fun.

  Anyway, you can read Dallek’s comments here:

  http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/interviews/int2002-11-18.htm

« Back to Huckleberries Online

• ›Scanner traffic