Yes, even though I'm all for Bernie Sanders. Now that Biden is almost out of the news, and we continue the daily chaos of a horrid Republican administration, with the King and All the Kings Men (and some Women) embroiled in daily antics, all which have given the American people a collective anxiety.
How I wish that Bernie had not "Suspended" his campaign. Why do we use that language, "Suspended"? If a student got suspended from high school, it was temporary, meant to discipline the student, but then they came back. He did not Suspend. He gave up and quit.
We need to get back to the "conversation" about the election. Coronavirus-19 makes this especially so.
How I wish our government would go back to the WORKS PROJECT ADMINISTRATION and the CCC's - programs that helped people who wanted to work and earn some money during a Great Depression unemployment rate - survive.
We have always had to give some consideration to a Vice President candidate - a running mate - and the line of succession. Because of the virus we need to consider health issues more than ever. However, we have had DISABLED PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES and DISABLED PRESIDENTS - who had to hide their medical issues at the time - and who still did the job. Certainly their medical issues had effects on their world view and thinking, but we have no reason to think either was unable to do the job, the way President Trumps behaviors have.
These include President Franklin Roosevelt and President John F. Kennedy.
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Showing posts with label President John F. Kennedy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label President John F. Kennedy. Show all posts
10/5/19
MARK SHAW's BOOK DENIAL OF JUSTICE : DOROTHY KILGALLEN STORY
I heard this author speak on a radio program and then listened to this YouTube video of his presentation another time. I think Shaw is a well organized speaker and the story about Dorothy Kilgallen is interesting. Because of him, an investigation of her death which had been called a suicide was opened. He thinks it was murder. He thinks he knows who did it too because of a POEM his suspect wrote. Kilgallen was a journalist who was onto something about the President John F. Kennedy assassination. More famous for her presence as a game show player on "What's My Line," a television show, I had no idea that she had been known in her time as a respected investigative journalist. This one take about an hour, but if any of that interestes you, it's worth the listen.
11/13/13
JFK and JACKIE VORACIOUS READERS : FROM JFK'S LAST HUNDRED DAYS
Page 72
He and Jackie were voracious readers. For her, books had been an escape from her parent's troubled marriage; for him, an escape during his many illnesses and hospitalizations. His reading had a determined and remorseless quality, and he read at meals, in the bathtub, and even propped a book up on his bureau as he dressed. He told his friend Larry Newman, "I feel better when there are books around. That's really where my education comes from." Exchanging books had become a form of communication for them - a way of expressing feelings they had difficulty voicing.....
Page 73
Kennedy was a fast reader and could have finished the biography that weekend (of Marshall of France: The life and Times of Maurice de Saxe.
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CT editor : Jackie may have given this book to her husband because Maurice de Saxe, the man it profiled, was much like him. Witty, elegant, a philanderer. Even the Count's mother may have reminded her of Rose Kennedy, growing increasingly eccentric as she aged. Also, the Count's father may have reminded her of JFK's father, Joe Kennedy, who was a "notorious satyr." There were other similarities. Jackie's first child Arabella, had been miscarried. Maurice de Saxe's wife's first born lived only a few days, as had their son Patrick. I wonder if Jackie believed in reincarnation. I know from reading around her that she was a bit of a fatalist.
JFK'S LAST HUNDRED DAYS by THURSTON CLARKE C 2013
The Transformation of a Man and the Emergence of a Great President.
Penguin Press New York 2013 Publisher
He and Jackie were voracious readers. For her, books had been an escape from her parent's troubled marriage; for him, an escape during his many illnesses and hospitalizations. His reading had a determined and remorseless quality, and he read at meals, in the bathtub, and even propped a book up on his bureau as he dressed. He told his friend Larry Newman, "I feel better when there are books around. That's really where my education comes from." Exchanging books had become a form of communication for them - a way of expressing feelings they had difficulty voicing.....
Page 73
Kennedy was a fast reader and could have finished the biography that weekend (of Marshall of France: The life and Times of Maurice de Saxe.
******
CT editor : Jackie may have given this book to her husband because Maurice de Saxe, the man it profiled, was much like him. Witty, elegant, a philanderer. Even the Count's mother may have reminded her of Rose Kennedy, growing increasingly eccentric as she aged. Also, the Count's father may have reminded her of JFK's father, Joe Kennedy, who was a "notorious satyr." There were other similarities. Jackie's first child Arabella, had been miscarried. Maurice de Saxe's wife's first born lived only a few days, as had their son Patrick. I wonder if Jackie believed in reincarnation. I know from reading around her that she was a bit of a fatalist.
JFK'S LAST HUNDRED DAYS by THURSTON CLARKE C 2013
The Transformation of a Man and the Emergence of a Great President.
Penguin Press New York 2013 Publisher
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