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14. Your last sentence is kind of my take on it ellen...

Tue Nov 5, 2013, 06:59 PM

Nov 2013

He was a bourgeois politician and came from a ruling class background in addition to that. He had some pretty good ideas, but overall he was conservative, even for Democrats of that time. IOW, he was not really even a "liberal" icon. Far to the right of FDR.

Who really knows what would have happened had he been able to finish his term, but a lot of JFK's so called "liberalism" came from selective memories AFTER he was killed, whoever killed him.

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This book pretty much sets it out-- ellenrr Nov 2013 #13

Your last sentence is kind of my take on it ellen... socialist_n_TN Nov 2013 #14

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