John F. Kennedy

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  • Sorensen, former JFK speechwriter, speaks

    For the second day in a row, there was a passing of the torch from the Kennedys to Barack Obama, as Sorensen directly tied the presumptive nominee to his former boss.
  • Obama/Kennedy vs. McCain/Goldwater

    This year's presidential contest is shaping up as the 1964 campaign that never happened
  • Hacking into Freedom City

    "The Gulag Archipelago" meets "Counter-Strike" in China. Your mission, should you choose to accept it: Deliver milk powder.
  • John F. Kennedy, plagiarist?

    If Barack Obama borrowed from Deval Patrick, so what? Creative "borrowing" is part of speechwriting, as Kennedy knew, and as I learned while working for Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale.
  • Lieberman takes swipe at Democrats, Obama

    In an Op-Ed, the Connecticut senator bemoans what he sees as a change in the foreign policy of his off-again, on-again party.
  • The qualms before the storm

    How might Clinton and Obama handle the Oval Office? On the eve of Super Tuesday, what we still don't know could come back to haunt us.
  • This is not Romney's Kennedy moment

    Mitt Romney is caught between Mormonism and a hard place -- the fundamentalist Christian base of the modern GOP. And it's partly his own fault.
  • Arthur M. Schlesinger's playbill for the American century

    His personal journals unveil the glory and corruption of postwar presidents with emotional truth and power. Alas, the age of the great historian is over.
  • Lady Bird Johnson dead at 94

    The former first lady died Wednesday afternoon.
  • American goodwill, in shackles

    How Bush hardliners and even mainstream pundits have hogtied one of our greatest potential strengths in the war on terrorism.
  • Better to be Hamlet than President George

    Doubt is a virtue, JFK told students 45 years ago. Without it we have the tragic bluster and empty optimism of political culture today.
  • History according to Vanity Fair

    Ted Sorensen -- and Bruce Willis -- set the record straight on JFK.
  • The wisdom of Ted Sorensen -- and Bruce Willis

    The Kennedy speechwriter, and the Republican star, set the record straight in Vanity Fair.
  • Rome on the Potomac

    Real-life Washington could be just as sinister and treacherous as the HBO series set in the ancient imperial capital.
  • The Kennedy legacy vs. the Bush legacy

    Cuba could easily have become the Iraq of its day. But fortunately JFK was no George W.
  • Still searching for JFK

    When presidential candidates posture as the new JFK, do they realize he was more a dove than a hawk?
  • "Brothers"

    The exclusive story of Robert F. Kennedy's secret search for the truth about John F. Kennedy's assassination. From the new book by Salon's founder and former editor in chief.
  • Real inconvenient truths

    Our failed political dynasties, Pelosi's stylish appeal and George W. Bush as Queen Victoria. Plus: The hot air about global warming.
  • New JFK film

    Haunting new footage of JFK and Jackie, moments moments before chaos.
  • Too much Gore

    Vidal's second memoir merely retells the stories we already know from his enormous -- and potentially irrelevant -- body of work.
  • The Galbraith I knew

    His biographer recalls how the late economist warned JFK about Vietnam -- and faulted conservative policies for worsening inequality in America.
  • The mafia, the coup and the murder

    The authors respond to David Talbot's review of "Ultimate Sacrifice."
  • Case closed?

    A new book about the JFK assassination claims to finally solve the mystery.
  • "Ultimate Sacrifice": An excerpt

    In a blockbuster story unrevealed until now, the mob tried to kill Kennedy just days before he was gunned down in Dallas.
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