"Kennedy After 2 Years" NBC/ABC/CBS informally in the Oval Office

[David Josephs]

JFK in his Rocker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9W9CpLK7I1c

 

 

Edited November 13, 2020 by David Josephs

[Steve Thomas]

16 hours ago, David Josephs said:

JFK in his Rocker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9W9CpLK7I1c

 

 

David,

I watched this. How refreshing! And how different from what we have been experiencing over the last four years - to see someone take responsibility, and who reads.

Steve Thomas

[Kirk Gallaway]

Interesting Dave, thanks! Nice snapshot of what was politically going on for JFK at the time.

I thought it particularly interesting when JFK talks about the influence of past Presidents in the present government and mentions Eisenhower's influence, then Truman and then Hoover, who had been out of office for 30 years, essentially in office last when JFK was a teenager. And he completely omits the obvious  government expanding gorilla in the room in FDR. Jackie 's memoirs also talks about JFK family dislike of FDR. The family just had a blackout  about FDR and acted like he never existed after FDR recalled Joseph Kennedy from his diplomatic post in part for  his reluctance to take on Hitler.. 

 

 

Edited November 14, 2020 by Kirk Gallaway

[David Andrews]

On 11/14/2020 at 1:36 PM, Kirk Gallaway said:

Interesting Dave, thanks! Nice snapshot of what was politically going on for JFK at the time.

I thought it particularly interesting when JFK talks about the influence of past Presidents in the present government and mentions Eisenhower's influence, then Truman and then Hoover, who had been out of office for 30 years, essentially in office last when JFK was a teenager. And he completely omits the obvious  government expanding gorilla in the room in FDR. Jackie 's memoirs also talks about JFK family dislike of FDR. The family just had a blackout  about FDR and acted like he never existed after FDR recalled Joseph Kennedy from his diplomatic post in part for  his reluctance to take on Hitler.. 

 

Interesting since we tend to look at JFK as a Progressive in the FDR line.

Edited November 15, 2020 by David Andrews

[Matt Allison]

I took it more as JFK simply talking about the contemporaneous influence of past Presidents. All the names he mentioned were still alive at the time of the interview. FDR was not.