Sunday, February 15, 2015

(N)either Kennedy brother was genuinely sympathetic to their cause, concerned as they were with losing the support of white southern Democrats in ’64.

Secret tapes reveal JFK’s duplicity in Cold War, civil rights - Larry Getlen/NY Post

...Based on recently uncovered, secret tape recordings Kennedy made in the White House — including of the Eisenhower call above — plus declassified documents, Sloyan says that Kennedy was deceitful about some of his most important accomplishments and positions due to his desire to win re-election in 1964....