Two Days in June

[Jim DiEugenio]

http://www.ctka.net/2015/two_days_cohen.html

This is a mixed bag that could have been better.

A really good idea for a book, I mean how many people realize JFK made the Peace Speech and the Civil Rights speech within 48 hours of each other?

And that between them, he faced down Wallace at the University of Alabama.

Talk about high drama. But that is who he was.

[R.K. Locke]

This book looks quite interesting but I won't be paying £22 for the hardback.

Anybody read this one:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rockefellerocrac...bc?ie=UTF8

[Jim DiEugenio]

One good thing about the book is that it show that JFK was not really a slacker on civil rights.

This is one thing the gonzo left tries to pin on him.

What this book shows is that he was a realist on civil rights. He was pushing for, and also waiting for the right moment when he knew he could overcome a filibuster. And it also appears that the moral issue took hold with him and Sorenson and Yates. From what Cohen writes the Yates draft of the speech was really strong and powerful.

BTW, that looks like an interesting book in the link MR. Locke.

[Tracy Riddle]

A lot of people on the left today have no idea how powerful Southern conservatives were in the Democratic party 50 years ago. They dominated the power structure, chaired most of the committees. They're almost all in the GOP now, so it's a totally different picture today.

[Jim DiEugenio]

That is correct.

And the resistance that people like Clinton and Obama got is illustrative of what the Kennedy swede up against on ciivl rights.

[Tracy Riddle]

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/ba...l?hp=lc2_4

Obama channels John F. Kennedy to pitch Iran deal

The president plans to use speech at American University to argue for talking to enemies.