Before The Decade Is Out...

I think that JFK's stock has risen and fallen through the years.

In the last decade, JFK's reputation reached a low with conservative expressions of disgust about his constant womanizing. Prior to that, JFK had been lionized almost without opposition, mainly by the media and most of his biographers.

However, I sense that this country has become a bit tired of what is increasingly seen as a form of revisionism. Coupled with this is the fact that there is apparently some new scholarship that says that JFK would not have sent so many American troops into Vietnam after all.

The pendulum is swinging back again.

I need not tell folks how much I support the space program. If only there were a Kennedyesque supporter of our efforts in space in the Democratic Party.

If only.