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Mar. 7th, 2008
Politics Part One
Mar. 7th, 2008 02:51 amJFK. Forget what history has revealed about him. We did not know about the women, or the pills or the pain. At the time he was a war hero, young for a President, cultured, with a vision for the future and the determination to push it through. Also the first Catholic President. Bear in mind that Catholics at the time were considered lower class and not worthy of a whole lot. So it was a symbol that the US was changing. He inspired us, he challenged us. The Kennedys brought culture to the White House. And then on a November day he died.
Perhaps the first sign that the 60s were never going to be about reality that much. JFK was a womaniser and on pain pills for the last few years of his life. And the truth is that his social platform had bogged down in Congress. It was our future villain LBJ that had the political savvy to use the public outcry over the assasination to push them through. And JFK was arguably the first of our heroes to fall in the 60s, but he would hardly be the last.
Perhaps the first sign that the 60s were never going to be about reality that much. JFK was a womaniser and on pain pills for the last few years of his life. And the truth is that his social platform had bogged down in Congress. It was our future villain LBJ that had the political savvy to use the public outcry over the assasination to push them through. And JFK was arguably the first of our heroes to fall in the 60s, but he would hardly be the last.