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CTyankee

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5. He was the first president I voted for! I was so excited (and I voted kinda sneakily).

Tue Mar 4, 2025, 05:37 PM

Mar 4

It's a long story but I was able to vote because I was 21 (the age you had to be THEN), newly married, pregnant with my first child. And JFK was an exciting candidate. Of course, we knew nothing of his womanizing, but Jackie was SO pretty and spoke French and was a debutante. She was upper class elegant. We all imitated her hair style. She wore designer clothes that were then copied cheaply and we wore. His assassination was so shocking and her elegant service for him was so tragically beautiful. CAMELOT!

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Just thinking, JFK was a truling loved president. Maybe [View all] bluestarone Mar 4 OP

He's ancient history, and MAGA hates him to the extent they even know who he was. Ocelot II Mar 4 #1

Not to mention the press simply PoindexterOglethorpe Mar 4 #2

He was despised by southern racists. Voltaire2 Mar 4 #3

That's the haze of history... appmanga Mar 4 #4

He was the first president I voted for! I was so excited (and I voted kinda sneakily). CTyankee Mar 4 #5

Wow Sober Retiree Mar 5 #6

Murdered Sober Retiree Mar 5 #7

The womanizing was pretty terrible, and he did Some Good Things! electric_blue68 Mar 10 #8

There were people celebrating when he was assassinated DavidDvorkin Mar 10 #9

Wow. Terrible! Everyone up here that I knew (I was 10) in NYC was horrified, sad! electric_blue68 Mar 13 #10