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| JFK Aide Pierre Salinger Dies at 79 |
| 2004-10-17 |
| Pierre Salinger, a journalist and former press secretary to President John F. Kennedy, was also a prominent backer of the theory that the 1996 crash of TWA Flight 800 was caused by a Navy missile. Salinger, died Saturday at a hospital in southern France where he had undergone surgery to implant a pacemaker, his wife, Nicole Salinger, said Sunday. He was 79. Mrs. Salinger spoke from Le Thon, near Avignon in the Provence region, where the couple moved four years ago to run an inn. She said her husband left the United States because he opposed the presidency of George W. Bush. "He was very upset because he thought Bush was not fit to be president. He said he would leave if Bush became president and he did," Mrs. Salinger said. The cultured and outspoken Salinger rose from the ranks of newspaper journalism to become press secretary to Kennedy and eventually a trusted member of the family's inner circle. He and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis stayed in contact for many years following her husband's assassination, Mrs. Salinger said in a telephone interview. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #7 Our P-59 props didn't work worth a damn either. I blame McNamara. |
| Posted by: ed 2004-10-17 8:42:11 PM |
| #6 Ima think AC carries a grudge! LOL! Get 'em. |
| Posted by: Churchills Parrott 2004-10-17 8:29:26 PM |
| #5 Like many of JFK's minions, Pierre le Moonbat was a "cultured and outspoken" member of the elite, but completely ignorant of large swatches of reality. The most dangerous of these gaps, of course, was ignorance of their own limits. Robert McNamara, for instance, really believed that his experience promoting the Edsel at Ford Motor Company qualified him to run the Pentagon. Kennedy acolyte John Kenneth Galbraith, still wasting oxygen today at age 95, is a laughing stock in two countries, the US and India (where he almost single-handedly drove Nehru into the Soviet camp while acting as JFK's ambassador.) Earlier, as a member of an economic survey team in Germany at the end of WW2, Galbraith cited the failure to provide propellors for the Luftwaffe's Me-262s as evidence that German military-industrial competence was overrated. The planes were, of course, jets. More recently, he predicted that American soldiers would be as "befuddled in Afghanistan as they were in Vietnam." This may well be true, but not in the way he intended. |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2004-10-17 5:48:54 PM |
| #4 One of the few people I'm glad to see dead. |
| Posted by: John J. Simmins 2004-10-17 4:41:23 PM |
| #3 "...left the United States because he opposed the presidency of George W. Bush..." Put this Frenchman in one of the Kennedy plots, please, not among the other Americans. |
| Posted by: Tom 2004-10-17 11:47:44 AM |
| #2 Hope the Navy's not "testing missiles" when they fly his body back. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2004-10-17 11:39:50 AM |
| #1 Well....at least he followed through on leaving the US if Bush won. Now if only Alec Baldwin and the other Hollyweird idiots would do that too..... |
| Posted by: Desert Blondie 2004-10-17 11:33:56 AM |