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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: epicure who wrote (12771)2/20/2006 10:31:34 AM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (1) of 541542
 
Since he died young, and in the presidency, he's shrouded in a mantle we normally would give To An Athlete Dying Young. It doesn't have much to do with merit, and has a lot to do with America's obsession with youth, and wealth, and the mystique of Camelot.

Very well put. But it's one of those you-had-to-be-there bits. I can still get teary eyed over the JFK phenomenon. And still date memory moments by November of 63.
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