15-06-2018, 08:50 PM
Just another thought--
The claim that JFK had no alternative to being in the Nixon-Dulles-McCarthy anti-Communist group seems to be inaccurate: let's not forget that the Senate, on December 2, 1954 voted to censure McCarthy.
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes....ref=slogin
The above article claims that JFK scheduled a back operation so he would be in the hospital and thus not to have to vote on the McCarthy censure. He apparently spoke out against the McCarthy censure.
This issue was central to JFK's career prior to 1960. To claim that he had no choice but to be in the mold of Nixon, Dulles, Acheson or McCarthy seems to be a clear misrepresentation of what JFK (and RFK and JPK) were all about. This, to me, is a little like CNN "forgetting" to mention McCarthy in the Kennedy Dynasty series--pretty much indefensible.
James Lateer
The claim that JFK had no alternative to being in the Nixon-Dulles-McCarthy anti-Communist group seems to be inaccurate: let's not forget that the Senate, on December 2, 1954 voted to censure McCarthy.
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes....ref=slogin
The above article claims that JFK scheduled a back operation so he would be in the hospital and thus not to have to vote on the McCarthy censure. He apparently spoke out against the McCarthy censure.
This issue was central to JFK's career prior to 1960. To claim that he had no choice but to be in the mold of Nixon, Dulles, Acheson or McCarthy seems to be a clear misrepresentation of what JFK (and RFK and JPK) were all about. This, to me, is a little like CNN "forgetting" to mention McCarthy in the Kennedy Dynasty series--pretty much indefensible.
James Lateer