Word: wrongs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There have been two waves of Kennedy historiography. The first wave mythologised the slain president and created the stained-glass image of a man who could do no wrong. In foreign affairs he was depicted as the great "liberal" who had saved the world during the Missile Crisis and led the United States out of the Cold War and into a new, more hopeful era of detente with the Soviet Union. Likewise, in domestic affairs, he was pictured as the champion of civil rights and the hero of the underprivileged. It seemed that Kennedy had done little, if anything wrong...
...this image of a saint-like JFK was soon to be overturned. With the winds of Vietnam, Watergate, and the CIA revelations, so blew historical change and the second wave of Kennedy historiography. Something had gone drastically wrong with America in the post-Kennedy era. Historians searched frantically for the origins of disaster, and in so doing came to revise their opinions of Kennedy...
...Wrong Assumption...
...proxy votes are not allowed by the constitution, there's something very wrong," Stephen V. R. Winthrop '80, former vice president of the club, said yesterday...
...principle, there is nothing wrong with it. Practically speaking, it is impossible to implement. What could be done about crime? A man could commit a theft in East Jerusalem and get off scot free by running away to West Jerusalem, and vice versa. I'm afraid that divided sovereignty would soon mean the same walls, mines and barbed wire...