We may not find the ANSWERS. We may not find Bigfoot. We may not find a chupacabra. We may not find out who was responsible for killing JFK, but we're going to KEEPLOOKING, asking, probing. And one day - you know what? - we may get some of those answers.
Hollywood versions of watershed MOMENTS in AMERICAN history are generally high-minded shlock. 'JFK,' 'The People vs. Larry Flynt,' even 'Lincoln': all of these boast EXCELLENT performances in SCRIPTS that are ULTIMATELY very conventional, even conservative.
The lesson of the CLINTON years and of Obama's WIN of both the nomination and the general ELECTION in 2008 is that Democrats NEED to be as tough as JFK was.
VOTES for PRESIDENT have long been a KIND of social signifier. People will proudly boast that they voted for JFK; while it's harder to find those eager to CLAIM having supported Richard NIXON.
JFK inherited THREE recessions from the Dwight D. Eisenhower YEARS. And he wound up slashing tax rates across the BOARD, for upper, middle and lower incomes as well as corporate INVESTMENT. That's Kennedy the DEMOCRAT.
JFK and REAGAN's GROWTHMODEL included TAX cuts and a steady DOLLAR. Trump has taken a gigantic step toward restoring prosperity with his tax-cut-centered fiscal policy.
I KNEW who Jackie KENNEDY was in TERMS of being the wife of JFK and being a CLOTHESHORSE, and I knew that she later married Onassis, but I had a very, very vague idea of who he was.
Cairo has flights into JFK, and they're going to open another one at Dulles... As LONG as we have flights COMING directly to the United States, I think it's putting Americans at RISK.