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Sunday, June 05, 2005

Kennedy vs. Nixon

American Thinker discusses the media's decision to revere JFK and despise Nixon. While neither president deserves a glamorous legacy based on policy, that's not the way the media sees it.

It all began in 1960 as the Kennedy election machine revved up to take on Nixon. As Gary Wills, no great fan of Nixon, wrote in 1980, “…
at some point they (press) all agreed, to hate Nixon, and to love Prince Charming.”

Read the whole thing.