John F. Kennedy - Salon.com http://dir.salon.com/topics/john_f_kennedy/?source=rss&aim=john_f_kennedy en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Wed, 21 May 2008 14:05:00 PDT Lieberman takes swipe at Democrats, Obama Justin Jouvenal Wed, 21 May 2008 14:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2008/05/21/lieberman/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2008/05/21/lieberman/index.html?source=rss 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. Obama/Kennedy vs. McCain/Goldwater By David Talbot Wed, 21 May 2008 14:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/05/21/obama_jfk/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/05/21/obama_jfk/index.html?source=rss This year's presidential contest is shaping up as the 1964 campaign that never happened Hacking into Freedom City Andrew Leonard Wed, 21 May 2008 14:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/03/06/hacking_into_freedom_city/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/03/06/hacking_into_freedom_city/index.html?source=rss "The Gulag Archipelago" meets "Counter-Strike" in China. Your mission, should you choose to accept it: Deliver milk powder. John F. Kennedy, plagiarist? By Jerome Doolittle Wed, 21 May 2008 14:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/02/20/plagiarism/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/02/20/plagiarism/index.html?source=rss 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. The qualms before the storm By Walter Shapiro Wed, 21 May 2008 14:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/02/04/obama_clinton/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/02/04/obama_clinton/index.html?source=rss 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 By Andrew O'Hehir Wed, 21 May 2008 14:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/12/06/romney_ohehir/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/12/06/romney_ohehir/index.html?source=rss 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 By Sidney Blumenthal Wed, 21 May 2008 14:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/10/18/schlesinger_journals/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/10/18/schlesinger_journals/index.html?source=rss 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 Alex Koppelman Wed, 21 May 2008 14:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2007/07/11/johnson/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2007/07/11/johnson/index.html?source=rss The former first lady died Wednesday afternoon. American goodwill, in shackles By P.W. Singer Wed, 21 May 2008 14:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/06/26/war_of_ideas/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/06/26/war_of_ideas/index.html?source=rss 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 By Peter Birkenhead Wed, 21 May 2008 14:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/06/11/doubt/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/06/11/doubt/index.html?source=rss 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 David Talbot Wed, 21 May 2008 14:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/authors/talbot/2007/05/14/vanityfair/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/authors/talbot/2007/05/14/vanityfair/index.html?source=rss Ted Sorensen -- and Bruce Willis -- set the record straight on JFK. The wisdom of Ted Sorensen -- and Bruce Willis David Talbot Wed, 21 May 2008 14:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/authors/talbot/about/2007/05/14/vanityfair/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/authors/talbot/about/2007/05/14/vanityfair/index.html?source=rss The Kennedy speechwriter, and the Republican star, set the record straight in Vanity Fair. Rome on the Potomac David Talbot Wed, 21 May 2008 14:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/authors/talbot/2007/05/03/rome/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/authors/talbot/2007/05/03/rome/index.html?source=rss 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 David Talbot Wed, 21 May 2008 14:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/authors/talbot/2007/05/02/kennedy_bush/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/authors/talbot/2007/05/02/kennedy_bush/index.html?source=rss Cuba could easily have become the Iraq of its day. But fortunately JFK was no George W. Still searching for JFK David Talbot Wed, 21 May 2008 14:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/authors/talbot/2007/05/02/brothers/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/authors/talbot/2007/05/02/brothers/index.html?source=rss When presidential candidates posture as the new JFK, do they realize he was more a dove than a hawk? "Brothers" By David Talbot Wed, 21 May 2008 14:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2007/05/02/brothers/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2007/05/02/brothers/index.html?source=rss 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 By Camille Paglia Wed, 21 May 2008 14:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/paglia/2007/04/11/global_warming/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/paglia/2007/04/11/global_warming/index.html?source=rss 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 By Kerry Lauerman Wed, 21 May 2008 14:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/video_dog/documentary/2007/02/20/jfk/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/video_dog/documentary/2007/02/20/jfk/index.html?source=rss Haunting new footage of JFK and Jackie, moments moments before chaos. Too much Gore By Allen Barra Wed, 21 May 2008 14:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2007/01/03/vidal/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2007/01/03/vidal/index.html?source=rss Vidal's second memoir merely retells the stories we already know from his enormous -- and potentially irrelevant -- body of work. The Galbraith I knew By Richard Parker Wed, 21 May 2008 14:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/05/01/galbraith_appreciation/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/05/01/galbraith_appreciation/index.html?source=rss 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 By Lamar Waldron with Thom Hartmann Wed, 21 May 2008 14:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2005/12/07/response/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2005/12/07/response/index.html?source=rss The authors respond to David Talbot's review of "Ultimate Sacrifice." Case closed? By David Talbot Wed, 21 May 2008 14:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2005/12/01/review/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2005/12/01/review/index.html?source=rss A new book about the JFK assassination claims to finally solve the mystery. "Ultimate Sacrifice": An excerpt By Lamar Waldron with Thom Hartmann Wed, 21 May 2008 14:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2005/12/01/excerpt/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2005/12/01/excerpt/index.html?source=rss In a blockbuster story unrevealed until now, the mob tried to kill Kennedy just days before he was gunned down in Dallas. The top five books on the Kennedy assassination By David Talbot Wed, 21 May 2008 14:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2005/12/01/top_books/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2005/12/01/top_books/index.html?source=rss An expert's guide through the perplexing thicket of JFK assassination books. Holy warriors By Sidney Blumenthal Wed, 21 May 2008 14:05:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2005/04/21/tk/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2005/04/21/tk/index.html?source=rss Cardinal Ratzinger handed Bush the presidency by tipping the Catholic vote. Can American democracy survive their shared medieval vision?