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In reply to the discussion: When you see today's date on a calendar or printed or online [View all]wnylib
(26,298 posts)where I said that womanizing was an admirable trait. This is DU, not a RW site where I would expect to see such distortions. I said that being a womanizer does not equate to being a sexual harrasser. Men can have many affairs and not sexually harrass women. I am presuming that you know the difference between a man being unfaithful to his wife many times versus a man who harrasses women sexually with intimidation, pressure, threats, sexualization of a workplace, groping and inappropriate touching, etc.
I have been sexually harrassed, as have most women at some time in our lives. I know what it feels like. I would never consider it an admirable trait. I have been married - twice - so I also do not consider infidelity an admirable trait. I would not tolerate it. But Jackie did, although she did consider divorce at one point.
I did not present "nuances." I told what happened. Kennedy's power struggles with the CIA, Joint Chiefs, and the military industrial complex over civilian control of the government are a matter of public and historical record. Schools should be teaching about it, in civics classes if not in history classes, as an example of Constitutional powers.