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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
Eisenhower is the best president since WWII in my opinion, not Kennedy, though Ike's legacy is tainted in several significant ways, Cuba, Vietnam, Latin America, 'Red Scare'. He was still the most substantive president of the time period in question though. . Kennedy is a popular pick because of the assassination, but I think the trajectory of his presidency was rocky.
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Yeah I can get behind that. My thought process was more along the lines of that it seemed like JFK had the US headed in a good, useful direction (Space race, civil rights, didn't seem as afraid of the "communist threat", etc...) before he was murdered and his policies were likely to be follow by RFK, before he was also murdered.
I just think the whole historical outlook would have been different, and for the better, if Kennedy hadn't been shot. I could be off on his policies though, as my dad was 3 when he was shot.