To be fair, he announced a big push on Civil Rights just a few months before he was assassinated. It’s possible he wouldn’t have had the juice to get it passed, and that his assassination is the only reason Johnson got it passed, but Kennedy was certainly taking action.
The assassination saved his presidency, in the same way that the iceberg saved Leonardo and Kate’s romance in Titanic.
His presidency was going to break up once the boat docked and he realised being poor sucks?
No, his presidency was going to end up floating half on/half off a door.
Remember, er uh, me Jackie!
Had his term run its course, he’d be known as just another sleazy shitheel politician with a string of scandals. Instead, he is forever the golden boy of Camelot, the all-too-brief new dawn of an American midcentury optimism, and a contrast to those that followed. The name Fitzgerald Kennedy evokes this idea of a return to a golden age, with catastrophic recent results.
He was also a walking std.
He was also on meth for most his presidency *provided by a doctor
Got that doctor’s name by chance? Asking for myself. Bet he can get me Adderall.
Hopefully it can clear your head
And the nepotism in the cabinet. And the mafia involvement in electing him. And the secret sister. And turning the white house into the playboy mansion.
For supper I want a party platter.
We do these things not because they ah easy. But because THEY AH HAWD.
Throw some ers and uhs in there.
I err aaah, want you to ah pahk mah kaaah… In uuuh haahvaahd yaaahd
I, er, uh, would just like to sayyyyyy…
Who forgot?
If only I had a time traveller from the future to tell me which decisions turned out badly…oh wait I didn’t.
Yeah if the bay of pigs has succeeded, it probably would have been considered a win.
Just like the rest of them, he’s being forgotten altogether as the past recedes into the distance.
