By no means is that consensus. See Fred Logevall, both in Choosing War and in the Mark White collection.
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Logevall is no wishful loon, will look into that
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Probably the best pithy treatment of the problem comes from Fred's countryman, Anders Stephanson, in https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-american-studies/article/senator-john-f-kennedy-anti-imperialism-and-utopian-deficit/5CE916EC2C3C9AD3175649C68945F65B …pic.twitter.com/EpGA3iqxfp
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why do people like him so much? is it just because he was young and vaguely handsome?
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Yeah I think that's it. Also some Irish-American and Catholic ID politics.
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Debatable! Logevall argues pretty convincingly for LBJ's personal responsibility (w/o taking away JFK's earlier role)
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You're like the third guy thwacking me with Logevall! Or Stephanson! Am going to have to look into it, much as it pains me to un-piss on JFK
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Conversely, hard to see Medicare, Civil Rights Act, etc. all happening with JFK instead of LBJ in the driver's seat (and no JFK martyrdom.)
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That's their dual tragedy
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These ads honoring The Guy Who Invaded Vietnam are all over Boston and the liberal hagiography about him always blows my mindpic.twitter.com/HDf0vOJE99
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THIS WAS JUST A HAND FULL OF CONFETTI THROWN INTO THE AIR TO DISTRACT THE MEDIA FROM MORE OF trump admin BLUNDERS.
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