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JFK still remembered fondly

Think of John Kennedy the way he was described by the sage of the Chicago, Carl Sandburg. Kennedy, Sandburg pronounced, “walked with the American people in their great diversity.”Or the way Norman Mailer saw him. Kennedy, Mailer wrote, fulfilled AmericaĢƵ need for a hero and for “a man ...

JFK was truly one of a kind

The other day, at home, I hung a photograph of John F. Kennedy on one wall. It was taken in the spring of 1960 in Chesapeake, W. Va., which is not far from the state capital of Charleston. Chesapeake is an old industrial town, one or two streets wide, sitting in a narrow valley formed by the ...

Trump needs to grow up fast

Finally.I can now state that I am in full agreement with President Trump about something.He said he’d go to Washington and shake things up.HeĢƵ done that!The United States of America is experiencing daily political earthquakes, thanks to a president who can’t get out of his own way.Mr. ...

Trump only cares about himself

It was the ultimate head-scratcher.Donald TrumpĢƵ decision to jettison FBI Director James Comey launched a political firestorm that was nearly without precedent.Oh, thereĢƵ that “Saturday Night Massacre,” that led to the downfall of Richard Nixon.Otherwise, historians have been unable ...

US must find a way to revive economy

Early in 1945, officials in the Roosevelt administration were busy making plans for the world emerging from the ruins of World War II.The role of global leader was new to the United States. In the four years since Pearl Harbor, the country had made a remarkable journey: it went from being a ...

Trump now turning out fake ads

Those of us who thought we could sleep easy at night, knowing there won’t be another presidential election for the next three and a half years, were wrong.The 2020 presidential campaign, it seems, has already begun.Last week, President Trump fired the first salvo in what appears to be his bid ...