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Their mission failed to clarify the President's thinking. "He's totally out to sea about what to do in Vietnam," said Kennedy's journalist friend Charles Bartlett. Even worse, Kennedy did not seem to know how to formulate a consistent policy on Southeast Asia. His approach was, Reeves writes...
Reeves illuminates such policy crunches, the almost nonstop crises of Kennedy's truncated term, with masterly research and graceful writing. He largely succeeds in recapturing Kennedy's perspective, putting the world into the context of "what he knew and when he knew it and what he actually did" as President...
With that focus on what Kennedy had to work with, Reeves has come up with fresh and fascinating material on the confrontations in Cuba, Berlin and Vietnam and on the "chummy" correspondence between Kennedy and Soviet boss Nikita Khrushchev after the Cuban missile crisis (Khrushchev confided, for example, that Kennedy...
Issue oriented though it is, President Kennedy reveals the man as well as the Chief Executive. Reeves finds J.F.K. a talented and intelligent politician, filled with ambition but essentially without a moral center, ideals or strong emotions. He shows Kennedy dealing with civil rights not as a moral issue but...
Most of all, Kennedy was a seducer, wielding his personal charm as a form of power: "Men and women fell in love with him." He was a skilled dissembler and sometimes a liar. He claimed to be healthy and filled with "vigor," but he was chronically ill with Addison's...