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To: epicure who wrote (12785)2/20/2006 11:48:38 AM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 541548
 
I understand the teary eye phenomenon, but it's more about the era, and the ideals that died, then it is about anything that actually got done. (IMO)

I think it's more a generational phenomenon. The later assassinations of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy were calamitous as well but more mourned by political followers, myself included, than the country at large.

JFK's death was a big event. I suspect that most of my generation and a bit younger can still remember where they were when they learned of his assassination.

Granted that gives a certain hue to his presidency. And that, I assume, is your point. On that, I completely agree.



To: epicure who wrote (12785)2/20/2006 1:15:11 PM
From: Suma  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 541548
 
Still regret the death of Bobby Kennedy more than Jack.
He was a fighter, he was not the ladies man Jack was..(who was alot like Clinton but wiser and more discreet).. and he got things done. His death I mourned more than the President's.. I felt after his demise that a generation lost two great leaders but Bobby would have imo been the greater of the two.


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