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Wreaths with red ribbons rest upon each lamppost in the Square along Massachusetts Avenue and JFK Street. The city has also put up light displays above Mass. Ave. in front of the Harvard Book Store and next to Straus Hall...
America's lasting nostalgia for JFK has little to do with his programmatic agenda. Instead, it is--as your parents will attest--a longing for the way he made America feel...
...long after JFK's death, the memories of the man and the myth of Camelot remain ripe in the American psyche. But most Americans would be hard-pressed to list Kennedy's top legislative accomplishments. Aside from the Peace Corps, the Bay of Pigs debacle and the Cuban Missile Crisis, Kennedy is not remembered for the substantive achievements of his presidency...
Bill Clinton, whose political baptism was a 1963 handshake with Kennedy, has so far failed to revive Camelot precisely because he has been unable to inspire Americans in the way that JFK did. He has invoked the Kennedy legacy through policy proposals (the National Service Act--a domestic Peace Corps), lofty ambiguities (the New Covenant--a Southern Baptist's New Frontier), and a series of staged events (Maya Angelo's inaugural poem a la Robert Frost, a Rose Garden reception for Boys' Nation 30 years--to the day--after Clinton's encounter with Kennedy...
BOSTON--Approximately 35 demonstrators gathered outside the JFK Federal Building at Government Center today to protest what they allege is a government cover-up of the assassination of John F. Kennedy...