“Viewed
up close, it's not a pretty picture:
"America's prince" looks more
like the imperial presidency's Dorian Gray.”
By GENE HEALY NOVEMBER 4, 2013
Nov. 22 — a little over two weeks from now — will mark the 50th anniversary of President Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas in 1963. But unless you’re on a starvation-level “media diet,” you probably knew that already. Politico notes a looming “media tidal wave,” with more than 100 new Kennedy books, dozens of TV specials and several new iPad apps accompanying the unhappy anniversary.
In a December 1963
interview, the president’s widow gave a name to the Kennedy mystique, telling
journalist Theodore White of Jack’s fondness for the lyric from the Lerner and
Loewe musical about King Arthur: “Once there was a spot, for one brief shining
moment, that was known as Camelot."
Much more than a “moment,” Camelot has proven an enduring myth.
JFK places near
the top 10 in most presidential ranking surveys of historians, and in a 2011
Gallup poll, Americans ranked him ahead of George Washington in a list of
“America’s greatest presidents.” Kennedy’s murder
was a national tragedy, to be sure, but an honest assessment of his record
shows that our lawless and reckless 35th president was anything but a national
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