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13. Kennedy was considered a hero.

Mon Oct 22, 2012, 02:41 PM

Oct 2012

Today, Fox News would be ragging on him 24/7 for allowing the missiles to be snuck into Cuba in the first place.

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50 years ago today. President Kennedy tells the nation about the missiles in Cuba... [View all] Cooley Hurd Oct 2012 OP

Duck and cover! El Supremo Oct 2012 #1

Every time someone talks about a high stress job I tell them of my mother.... Spitfire of ATJ Oct 2012 #15

Me, too! Rhiannon12866 Oct 2012 #22

Romney would have gone the route of Nixon. berni_mccoy Oct 2012 #3

After the Bay of Pigs this event made the Kennedy reelection a shoe in... Spitfire of ATJ Oct 2012 #11

JFK was going to remove the advisers from Vietnam. hifiguy Oct 2012 #12

Meanwhile LBJ was tied to a tiny company in Texas that made helicopters.... Spitfire of ATJ Oct 2012 #18

4 months late, but you are soooo right, Octafish!! Cooley Hurd Jan 2013 #23

Hollywood version is pretty good. longship Oct 2012 #5

I remember this distinctly... WCGreen Oct 2012 #6

A suggestion jehop61 Oct 2012 #8

On my reading list Cooley Hurd Oct 2012 #9

There are right-wingers today who claim Kennedy was a "commie". Spitfire of ATJ Oct 2012 #10

There were back then too. hifiguy Oct 2012 #14

Kennedy was considered a hero. dawg Oct 2012 #13

Both Kennedy and Khrushchev had to stand up to hifiguy Oct 2012 #19

A 50-year-old myth nichomachus Oct 2012 #20