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To: Neocon who wrote (47906)	7/30/1999 7:50:00 AM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Remember the line in the film, "See who benefited and look there" ?(or something similar). Well, in Kennedy we had a plurality Prez who couldn't move any legislation, presided over a series of disasters in foreign policy - Bay of Pigs, Vienna, Berlin Wall, missiles in Cuba, the start of Vietnam - had much personal scandal - and who looked at a very problematic re-election since no Dem had ever won w/o carrying the South and he was almost certain to lose that. The Prez is killed and the whole picture changes. The liberal wing of his party takes over and they use his death to win one of the great landslide elections in US history. The liberals roll up great majorities in Congress and pass legislation - the Great Society et al - which Kennedy never could have passed and would never have come in such unthinking form. I remember reading that Johnson knew that their window of opportunity was short and they moved legislation so fast that no one knew what was in it or what they were really voting on and for. By 1966 the electorate reversed course in a dramatic way, giving the Dems the worst setback in decades, ending the era of unthinking liberal legislation. The point is, though, that if you look to the people who benefited, in the political realm that was decidedly the Dems and the Left in particular.