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"Kennedy was a hawk whose presidency reeled from calamity to predicament, including the Cuban missile crisis," read the magazine's clueless caption.
And just exactly what of this caption is "clueless"? In less than four years, Kennedy authorized America's most embarrassing foreign policy debacle of the last century with the failed invasion of Cuba, began the escalation of the our involvement in SE Asia, carried on affairs with at least three woman, and was photographed with known crime figures.
Even now with most of the sordid details known, Kennedy's legacy is a triumph of image over substance that somehow remains sacrosanct.
