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To: Bill who wrote (3130)10/12/2001 9:48:53 AM
From: Zoltan!  Read Replies (1) of 3246
 
Yea, I remember the NYTimes put some Dem named Ball - he was the former SS head - up to writing two op-eds in 1980 and 1984.

Both op-eds basically said that we can't elect Reagan because he'll die in office. It was meant to scare. We just couldn't elect so old a man.

Of course, the NYTimes hid the fact from its readers that JFK was the sickliest prez since Wilson had had his stoke and that Kennedy had Addison's disease and was taking massive doses of corticosteroids which can affect judgment over time. Certainly the "speedball cocktail" injections that JFK regularly received from Dr. "Feelgood" are given some credit for the many Kennedy foreign policy debacles: Vienna, Bay of Pigs and the missile crisis.

No, the NYTimes promoted the idea that JFK - who wore a brace - had "vigor". He was also presented as the ideal family man.

You have to love the NYTimes, the more things change, the more it stays the same.
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