JFK's Harvard Application
#1
Posted 21 January 2011 - 03:15 PM
He graduated 65th out of 110 at Choate Academy.
JFK actually started college at Princeton, but then dropped out because of a severe illness. He ended up missing a year to recuperate.
Harvard
Kennedy was hospitalized more than three dozen times in his life.
JFK health
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#2
Posted 01 February 2011 - 09:26 PM
This is another tale of our society's ability to become enraptured by someone with star quality and ignore the real picture despite overwhelming evidence.
it seems clear that Kennedy's marriage was a sham and his image of youthful vigor was even more of a sham. Hersh is convincing that Kennedy could not get through the day without a battery of probably illegal drugs. Kennedy was suffering from Addison's disease, which is a very serious condition, and had many other health issues, including the famous back problem, which put him in constant pain.
Personally I found this book convincing as regards the infidelity, drug, and health claims that it made about Kennedy. Hersh is on thinner ice when he theorizes that these issues caused Kennedy to endanger the country. While this book or one like it is probably needed to balance the fluff pieces about Kennedy (and all the Kennedys) that abound, it is not itself a balanced analysis of JFK. To its credit, the book more or less admits this, in its title if nowhere else.
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Edited by stocks, 01 February 2011 - 09:35 PM.
Defenders of the status quo are always stronger than reformers seeking change,
UNTIL the status quo self-destructs from its own corruption, and the reformers are free to build on its ashes.
#3
Posted 01 February 2011 - 10:01 PM
JFK's Harvard Application
He graduated 65th out of 110 at Choate Academy.
JFK actually started college at Princeton, but then dropped out because of a severe illness. He ended up missing a year to recuperate.
Harvard
Kennedy was hospitalized more than three dozen times in his life.
JFK health
Get over it and move on. Quit making your Kennedy smearing a biennial event. It's wearing thin.
Speaking of thin as in thin ice, who would you have rather had as president during the Cuban Missile Crisis, John Kennedy or Richard Nixon?
The defense rests.
Edited by milbank, 01 February 2011 - 10:07 PM.
"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it."
--George Bernard Shaw
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#4
Posted 02 February 2011 - 10:48 AM
Ad hominem.Get over it and move on. Quit making your Kennedy smearing a biennial event. It's wearing thin.
Speaking of thin as in thin ice, who would you have rather had as president during the Cuban Missile Crisis, John Kennedy or Richard Nixon?
The defense rests.
The 50th anniversary of JFK's speech puts him in the news.
The Harvard application is brand new information.
The Kennedy mini-series is a brand new controversy.
Media adoration of a certain kind of charisma is relevant today.
History is not smearing.
Play the ball, not the man.
Defenders of the status quo are always stronger than reformers seeking change,
UNTIL the status quo self-destructs from its own corruption, and the reformers are free to build on its ashes.
#5
Posted 02 February 2011 - 11:03 AM
Edited by milbank, 02 February 2011 - 11:10 AM.
"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it."
--George Bernard Shaw
"None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free."
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#6
Posted 02 February 2011 - 11:19 AM
Edited by milbank, 02 February 2011 - 11:25 AM.
"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it."
--George Bernard Shaw
"None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free."
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#7
Posted 06 August 2013 - 11:25 AM
The Dark Side of Camelot -- Seymour M. Hersh
This is another tale of our society's ability to become enraptured by someone with star quality and ignore the real picture despite overwhelming evidence.
it seems clear that Kennedy's marriage was a sham and his image of youthful vigor was even more of a sham. Hersh is convincing that Kennedy could not get through the day without a battery of probably illegal drugs. Kennedy was suffering from Addison's disease, which is a very serious condition, and had many other health issues, including the famous back problem, which put him in constant pain.
Personally I found this book convincing as regards the infidelity, drug, and health claims that it made about Kennedy. Hersh is on thinner ice when he theorizes that these issues caused Kennedy to endanger the country. While this book or one like it is probably needed to balance the fluff pieces about Kennedy (and all the Kennedys) that abound, it is not itself a balanced analysis of JFK. To its credit, the book more or less admits this, in its title if nowhere else.
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New book details JFK's last year with Jackie: Affair with Marilyn, amphetamines from 'Dr. Feelgood'..
Max Jacobson, known as Dr. Feelgood, administered high-dosage amphetamine shots laced with steroids to the president on a regular basis. In fact, he would do multiple duty injecting the president, first lady, and members of their inner circle at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Apparently even Jacobson, aware that the other physicians treating the president vehemently objected to his methods, entertained doubts about whether his was the right approach. Although JFK assured him that the regular four-times-weekly injections weren’t interfering with his work, Jacobson handed Jack his resignation. JFK tore it up.
Dr. Max’s magic bullets may have helped Jack and Jackie to cope in the short run, but Jack’s other physicians grew concerned that they might interact with the dozen or so other drugs Jack was taking for his Addison’s-related problems.
Even Gore Vidal, who had been a patient of Jacobson’s, was “horrified” to learn he was treating Jack. “Watch out,” he warned Jackie. “Stay away from him. I know him well. Max drove several people mad.”
Read more: http://www.nydailyne...2#ixzz2bCsXqoD0
Defenders of the status quo are always stronger than reformers seeking change,
UNTIL the status quo self-destructs from its own corruption, and the reformers are free to build on its ashes.
#8
Posted 20 August 2013 - 05:52 AM
Caroline Kennedy Worth Up to $278 Million, Disclosures Show
Zero talent, big inheritance.
Caroline Kennedy, President Barack Obama’s nominee as ambassador to Japan, is worth between $67 million and $278 million, according to personal financial-disclosure reports.
Kennedy’s 60-page filing listed eight Cayman Island partnerships, with a combined value ranging from $542,000 to $1.2 million. They’re listed as Blackstone Capital Partners.
She cites multiple accounts at JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM:US) and Goldman Sachs (GS:US) Group Inc., as well as a Goldman Sachs individual retirement account worth between $100,000 and $250,000.
http://www.businessw...isclosures-show
Edited by stocks, 20 August 2013 - 06:01 AM.
Defenders of the status quo are always stronger than reformers seeking change,
UNTIL the status quo self-destructs from its own corruption, and the reformers are free to build on its ashes.
#9
Posted 18 September 2013 - 09:28 AM
Those skeptical of the degeneration of America’s royal line need look no further than Robert Kennedy Jr.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s journal is full of mistresses and Catholic guilt. The Post also exclusively revealed RFK’s secret slams against Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and Governor Cuomo – and insight on his days full of celebrities, yachts and falcons.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. grappled with what he called his biggest defect — “my lust demons” — while keeping a scorecard of more than two dozen conquests, according to his secret diary.
The thick, red journal was found in their home by his wife, Mary Richardson Kennedy, who, distraught over their impending divorce and Kennedy’s serial philandering, committed suicide last year.
http://nypost.com/20...ry-of-adultery/
Defenders of the status quo are always stronger than reformers seeking change,
UNTIL the status quo self-destructs from its own corruption, and the reformers are free to build on its ashes.
#10
Posted 18 September 2013 - 11:18 AM
And, unlike those who don't hold public office or haven't been around for 50 to 60 years, this prick is still on the taxpayer's payroll in the so-called "World's greatest deliberative body".. Go figure.
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