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Originally posted by james t kirk
I don't think Oswald acted alone. Who exactly was in on it, we'll never know for sure.
But on the issue of his presidency, I think he showed a very cool head under pressure during the missile crisis. With his own generals screaming at him to go to war, he held out and rightfully so. He saved the world from WW3 in my opinion. For that alone, he is a great president.
Also, he had a good record on civil rights, the economey was doing well under him, AND (you may not know this) but he never collected a cent of salary all the time he was president. Instead, he donated every cent of his salary to charity quietly.
I'd like to see president shrub do that.
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He also cut taxes (thats a good thing, something Democrats no longer do).
Gave us the Bay of Pigs.
Began our involvement in Vietnam, something Ike knew better then to do.
He knew there was NOT going to be WW3 thanks to a very high placed spy in the USSR. I'm not faulting him for this, use what ever you can to win
, but the USSR KNEW it would get its ass kicked in a WW3 senerio and they were going to back down if Kennedy didn't.
Also when you have all of Daddy's rum running money to back you, why would you need a salary?
Kennedy is mourned more for his potential then to what he actually DID.
His assassination was horrible for the nation though long term. I'm sure he would have handled Vietnam better then LBJ, and maybe he wouldn't have given us the welfare state that LBJ did with the 'Great Society'.