Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6527064-20190417050856/@comment-35244253-20190423220507

AllianceScoutAiothai wrote: JFK was one of the greatest Presidents in America history. Unlike Johnson, he supported a quick withdrawal from Vietnam. Aside from Vietnam, he sought peace with the Soviets and an early end to the Cold War. The strides he took towards civil rights are matched perhaps only by Lincoln.

I by all accounts shouldn't like Kennedy. He was a devout Irish-Catholic which usually flies right in the face of everything in which I believe, but he stood up to the Vatican and may have paid with his life. JFK is a big reason for civil rights, but he would not have passed the bill. He lacked the political clout of somebody like Johnson. He also wanted a quick exit in Vietnam. He couldn't. JFK wouldn't have done better.

Of course you'd try make peace with your enemy, especially if the both of you had almost brought an end to humanity. That's not even mentioning the Bay of Pigs. Also, there's too many claims of sexual harrassment by Kennedy to be ignored. #MeeToo, right?