>Those were simpler, kinder, more private days. Thanks for showing the letter!
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>>>Truth be told, he wasn't much of a senator, but my generation loved him anyway.
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>The thing that all those Kennedy scions had, was charm. Have you seen the 1980s BBC masterpiece, Brideshead Revisited? It seems you can watch it on Youtube now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD0nrC-vfaY . The aristocratic Flytes had charm too, not that it delivered a happy ending for them either.
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>/edit/ that's only the first 10 minutes. See if you can dig out the rest. Lots of good actors and well worth it. Episode 2 is a particular favorite.

Loved every minute of that series.
I also regularly watch my DVD of the film Chariots of Fire - a brilliant exposition of all that was good - and corrupt- in the British class system.

We once had our own version here. JFK was the last in a series of erudite political servants - starting with Adams, Jefferson , Franklin, TR, Wilson and FDR.

After Vietnam, things changed.

Someone asked Reagan how a movie actor could be president. His reply "How could anyone who is not a movie actor do this job?"
Intellectual honesty, wisdom and ethos have been superseded here by ratings and clicks.
Sounds grim, but it's not. We have to go through these crazy periods, but eventually, we get it.

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