Sue Hartigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hi Terry:
I agree that good or bad we do need to know about what goes on in the WH
concerning things such as Vietnam, Iraq, etc. Even Watergate, and yes
even Whitewater.
But do we really need to know things such as "Nixon Beat His Wife",
"Johnson's name is on baby's birth certificate", or "Kennedy snuck women
through the back door"? These people are not here any longer to defend
themselves. And there is no way to prove one way or the other if these
things did occur, or not.
The good, bad and the ugly that is going on right now in the WH has both
sides represented. Clinton is here to defend himself. Kennedy, Nixon,
and the rest aren't. Nor are their wives.
As for the Kennedy and Nixon children, yes they are adults. And yes
they have been through a lot more than most children and as a result
probably have pretty thick skins. But I would think it would still hurt
to read something in the paper such as "Nixon beat his wife".
And besides, is it really any of our business, especially now all these
years later when it won't change anything, nor make any difference at
all? But that is just my opinion. :)
Sue
>
> Hi Sue,
>
> (I have no idea if Nixon beat his wife or not per the title of this thread.)
>
> But responding to your question, if history has any meaning the bad as well
> as the good needs to be known. In the future people will deny they knew
> about the corruption in this administration just as people closed their eyes
> to that in the Kennedy administration. Once when Kennedy was asked about
> the unfairness of the draft, he said, "Life isn't fair." When life got a
> little fairer and the sons of the well-to-do were finally threatened by the
> draft, the awful war in Vietnam Kennedy was most responsible for ended. The
> loss of 50,000 young American men in Vietnam isn't unrelated to Kennedy's
> contempt for the lower classes as well as for the women he used like
> disposables.
>
> Often innocents get hurt but Caroline and John Kennedy, Jr. are adults and
> are not implicated in any way in their father's actions.
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1. Don't tell people everything you know.
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