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...Camelot Exist...
...need Ted Kennedy as President to "feel good again," as you say in "Recalling the Kennedys" [Nov. 27], our American malaise runs deeper than the horrors of Guyana would indicate. Let's face it. There never was a Camelot...
Somehow the tragic circumstances surrounding his death and the flood of sympathy which that released came to obscure what had actually happened. Achievements emasculated blunders. Washington became Camelot. Myth replaced reality. The nation craved a hero and Kennedy fit the bill. When Dave Powers said that "Being with Jack Kennedy in the White House was like dying and going to heaven," he captured the mood of the country at that time. It had all seemed so exciting, so different from the seamier Johnson and Nixon years. Kennedy had indeed been the best and the brightest...
...Camelot again, if only for a few sunny days. "Now at last Jack has come back to Harvard," said Senator Ted Kennedy as his wife Joan wiped away a tear. Jackie Onassis and her children Caroline and John were also present at the dedication of the new $12 million building housing the John F. Kennedy School of Government. The school, which applies to government problems the case-study method pioneered by Harvard Business School, will be, said Ted, "a bridge between the academy and the world of politics." It will also be a living memorial to J.F.K. Said...
Happy endings are not the Kyle style. But time is a great provider. Today, the author informs us, the castle has been reconstructed as a youth hostel. Such truths are comforting; but it is fiction like Black Camelot that makes history live...