
Monika Wiesak
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Author of America's Last President, Echoes of a Lost America & Michael Jackson: The Man, the Music, the Controversy.
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The United States is neither omnipotent not omniscient. We are only 6% of the world’s population & we cannot impose our will upon the other 94% of mankind. We cannot right every wrong or reverse each adversity. There cannot be an American solution to every world problem. - JFK
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After his 1951 trip to Iran & before the Mossadegh coup, JFK was asked if he would ally with the nationalistic forces in the nation: I certainly would, it’s the only hope, we’ve allied ourselves too closely with the British. The British position is hopeless & we’ve paid the price
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This helps explain why JFK wanted LBJ out of the Senate Majority leader position: It’s a struggle to move through a program when the seniority system places particular individuals in key positions who may be wholly unsympathetic, even though they’re members of your own party.
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If that must come [giving up one's life], no cause, the cause of peace, is more worthy of that kind of a great contribution. To be able to make a maximum effort to serve peace in a time of maximum danger I would consider the most satisfactory of human experiences. - JFK
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