Psychoblues In or Out?

[Samantha]

do you think of jfk as a great president?

I'd say only marginally above average.

Typical dodge.

He answered it exactly!

Less than average, quite a bit less.

In what way? I think he was a great President. He started new efforts in outer space. He led the way for us to land on the moon. He fought for civil and human rights. He started the Peace Corps.

Responding to ever more urgent demands, he took vigorous action in the cause of equal rights, calling for new civil rights legislation. His vision of America extended to the quality of the national culture and the central role of the arts in a vital society.

He wished America to resume its old mission as the first nation dedicated to the revolution of human rights. With the Alliance for Progress and the Peace Corps, he brought American idealism to the aid of developing nations.

He diffused a nuclear war with the Soviet Union.

Kennedy now contended that both sides had a vital interest in stopping the spread of nuclear weapons and slowing the arms race--a contention which led to the test ban treaty of 1963. The months after the Cuban crisis showed significant progress toward his goal of "a world of law and free choice, banishing the world of war and coercion." His administration thus saw the beginning of new hope for both the equal rights of Americans and the peace of the world.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/jk35.html