Word: judgment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recollection of these words evoked bitter irony last week. Kennedy's career was threatened not by a violent enemy or a political foe but by a scandal that revealed a shocking lapse of judgment and control...
...recent months he had only just begun to make a record: speeches on Viet Nam, the space program and the ABM?all of them cautiously worked out with the help of advisers, on whom he relied more than his brother did. But he gained confidence in his own political judgment and seemed to believe a statement that has been attributed to both John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, that Ted is the best politician in the Kennedy family...
...Rigors of the Oval Office But in some respects, a presidential candidate must be above the larger human frailties. Some people will always wonder whether Kennedy, who at best bent and broke under extreme pressure, can stand up to the rigors of the Oval Office. Would his judgment, like his brother's, remain unimpaired through the tension of a Cuban missile crisis? "Can we really trust him if the Russians come over the ice cap?" asked one Washington analyst last week. "Can he make the kind of split-second decisions the astronauts had to make in their landing...
...suffer in another, more basic way. He has not been a man devoid of self-doubt for some time. Now this burden could grow heavier, as he compares the Kennedy standard as it was passed to him and its present condition. Can he be sure of his own judgment and grit? He himself acknowledged the dilemma last week when he quoted from J.F.K.: "The stories of past courage cannot supply courage itself. For this, each man must look into his own soul...
...medical knowledge and hindered by protocol in examining their royal patient (they could not inquire how he felt unless he spoke to them first), had long since concluded that the King was "under an entire alienation of mind." George III went down in history as the mad monarch, a judgment accepted by generations of historians and buttressed by psychiatric studies...