Given the daily deterioration of our democracy-and not just its practice, but its symbols and forms, and this also matters-it seems that it deserves just a closer look at the so-called what is called Kennedy filesThe national archives issued last week, based on Donald Trump, until now, until the so -called Bupkes: Nothing of the result or revelation. Whispers about such a clear deception as an alleged message written by John F. Kennedy, son, describing Joe Biden as a traitor – has long been revealed and exposed by the FBI – some excitement on social media, including ON Elon Musk‘ Trump’s motive for launching the files appears to be the Alex Jones wing in his base – and it is also possible that the Minister of Health and Humanitarian Services, the Minister of Humanitarian Services, will be, Robert F. Kennedy Junior– Who clings to conspiracy theories as rational conservatives clinging to the constitution. But most of the records were available for a long time; The big difference here is that some of the intuitive names and sources (most of them) are revealed. (With Trump’s usual chaos, names, and even social security numbers for different passers -by, it was now inadvertently issued, which creates the possibility of new lawsuits.)
The reality, as the Warren Committee confirmed, in 1964, is still as it was in the afternoon: that: that: that Lee Harvey OzwaldAn unhappy man in the early twenties, whose ridiculous feeling fluctuates by abandoning himself with a feeling that cannot be like grievance-the type of political killer-and his own. His motives for killing Kennedy are still unconfirmed – although he may have simply intended to persuade Fidel Castro. (The motives of the killers are often confused: Mark Chapmann John Lennon killed a toxic boat that includes Esquire Article on Lennon and Hoss “with” with “with”The mask in the rye. “))
Ozwald was a violent man in a violent mood. Just months ago in Dallas, the Warren committee found that he tried to kill former army brigade Edwin Walker, and less than an hour after Kennedy was killed. Every accumulated evidence – on foot, ballistic evidence, eyewitnesses – creates a mountain of basic certainty regarding Oswald. Today’s failure to protect Kennedy is, in the past, horrific, but although the secret service can adapt to the well -known, they cannot predict everything that is unknown. At that time, the presidents rode in open cars; Now, they do not. (They also walked regularly, waving and smiling, from public events to presidential Limozine until 1981, when Ronald Reagan, he did so completely, was almost shot dead.)
The other side of the historical investigation has been known for a long time. as Times “I was convinced of his review of the documents that some of the information that was previously categorized was not classified to protect the details that suspect what happened to Kennedy, but for a simpler and more sensitive reason: you reach the sources of the CIA.” What was suppressed at that time, but these documents are proposed, is that the CIA, which participated in moral and illegally doubtful operations-as it was known at least since the results of the Church Committee, in the mid-nineties of the nineteenth century, was the agency that understood it, and it could not join it, and it cannot be less, and it cannot be less, and does not refer to the hatred. Practices can be “in vast” or, at least, have been revealed during the investigation. (Perhaps the first mafic journalist said.
Pure hair Destruction What happened is still amazing and also talks to the continuous shade of Kennedy’s long reputation. Over the past sixty years, people have been undermining that reputation, however, it stands in one way or another – to the extent that RFK, the son, despite its continuation by his family (the most obvious by his cousin Caroline, the daughter of JFK), continues in public life greatly because of the family name. The efforts made to reduce this shade were many and renewed. Kennedy, although he is married to the idol JackieHe was a man who had many alleged lovers, even as a president (including, recklessly, with bonds with mobs), a fact that she is clearly holding from the audience at that time. (like “mad men“We reminded it useful, though – as John AbedWe have reminded the stories of the nineteenth in this magazine, and marital infidelity was true at that time) Bay pigs. He was slow, and not to say careful, in addressing civil rights, the great issue of his presidency.
But there are good reasons for his memory to remain. JFK was a handsome man – a strait in appearance, but also handsome in situations, speech and personal style. “Half of the people I met started this sentence on John F. Kennedy:” was the most charming man that I met ever. “Said:” It was an irresistible magic because he settled on the basis of courage. It is important that, despite all this liberation, no one challenged the story first I mentioned In pages New Yorker, From his brave behavior he is almost ridiculous in World War II, when a Japanese patrol boat was injured as a young man in the navy in the Pacific. The magic that he dealt later later on political confrontations is still a legendary-in 1946, in a room full of Paul’s working class in Boston, after each of them was clearly presented as a young man “came in the difficult way”, I declared a removal, “I see that I am the only one here that tonight that did not come in the difficult way.” The Texas delegation later spoke at the 1960 National Congress of itself, on its own, to a large extent Daniel in the Assad’s den, and beat many lions. These are all details of the tone and mood, and the relative absence of clear and large political achievements is part of the indictment against JFK, but the accent of society is essential in its self -perception. Personal morals are the surface of public morals.
The theorist of conspiracy (And those of us who argue with them have scars to show them) They often confirm that people who earn conspiracies allied with conspirators. However, as generations of Marxist scholars have written, the essence of smart social criticism is the realization that things would have happened in one way or another the way they did because of the economic and ideological forces inherent in a country. So, the Vietnam War, far from being a brutal against the government, in the absence of Kennedy, by Lindon Johnson, as Oliver Stone “JFK” was proposed, it was a natural unplanned result of long -term beliefs about the Cold War and confrontation with the group group. He was encouraged and executed during the reign of Johnson by many of the same people, almost all of them from the loyalty of Kennedy – “The Best and Shine” – which Kennedy was recruited in the government.
The individual personality is important in history – it is imagined that Kennedy would have recognized the trap of the wild war in Asia closer to LBJ, being less inaccurate, but it was also possible that he would have committed the same fatal mistakes in Vietnam, and for the same reasons. If Vietnam lost in 1965 instead of 1975, the right -wing Republicans, led by Ronald Reagan, from others, had not said, “Oh, thank God that we have not lost tens of thousands of lives that remain there and fight a competition that is clearly condemned.” They had cried with cheese and recovery, and many, most of them were Americans listened. Did JFK resist this circumstance better than LBJ? It can be conceived. But it was the same circumstance.
Thus we went back to this long shade. Countless American institutions were named after Kennedy immediately after the assassination: The airport known as Idlewild remains, and remains our JFK, and in a loop still amazing, Cape Canaferral, in Florida, was briefly named as Cape Kennedy. (The genealogy-four hundred years-was restored after a decade.
The successor often gets the credit for what the competitor started. Dwight de Ezenhower first pushed the idea of the art center in Washington, to place the city even with other capitals of the world as “an artistic Mecca that will be open to visitors from every land.” In the contracts that have passed since its foundation, the center’s board of directors and the second-until last month were distinguished when Trump, in a hideous presentation of the ego, launched all members appointed from Biden and made himself president. What Trump imagines Fill the space is unclear. It has a weakness for the bad musical plays in Broadway, and the contempt of those great – the repetition of “cats” to “Hamilton” in itself, as the close reading of the federal papers should clarify the reasons for accountability. (Although Trump’s emotion For Andro Lloyd Weber’s musical plays is one of the things that make him look very human. On the national theater, at any stage, there must be room for a first -class theatrical writer David Mamit To one side of the first degree like the left like Tony Kushner. Pluralism is the first principle of democratic culture. But what Trump wants is that he just shows that he loves. This is not a repair.
Aesthetic dimensions – ugly or ugly, or charming and hateful – are not always the vectors or axes we are governed by politics. But there is a lot that can be said about Eisenhower’s desire to see our public life symbols is high and impressive, and for at least people at the top of the height, if no one is able to embody it completely, then the role that Aristotle called this from the unknown man – separately the soul, the genetic of the enemies, and the unity that revolves around it. “The mere accumulation of wealth and power,” Kennedy said, in 1962, the collection of donations of 1962 when the Kennedy Center will be available to the dictator and democratic alike. What can freedom alone bring is the liberation of the mind and the human spirit, which finds the greatest bloom in the free society. ” It is impossible to imagine these words that rise from the man who is following him now – which seems to be believed that since the accumulation of strength and wealth is easily available to the dictator, it is only the sacrifice that chooses to be democratic – is a sign of our ugly time. ♦
