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| Historian and Kennedy insider Arthur Schlesinger dies | |
| 2007-03-01 | |
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| Posted by:Gleanter Ebbetch2205 |
| #3 Years ago whenever Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. opened his pie hole on some TV interview [Post Republic Vietnam] I used to yell "shit mouth" at the television screen. Typically the ex-wife would cringe a bit and slowly look my way and give me the deadly evil eye. ;-0 Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., "Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Kennedy insider who helped define mainstream liberalism during the Cold War and remained an eminent public thinker into the 21st century.....with a panoramic vision of American culture and politics.....He was one of chief proponents of Multiculturalism in the 1980s." IMO, The chief flaw I see in many of the Kennedy historians is that they crafted their analysis of Kennedy as if they were a fan publicist instead of a unbiased chronicler. IMO [rant] a good Presidential historian should chronicle important events more objectively than Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. did. Of course he must chronicle the main events in president's life and compile the successes and the failures in historical context but he must also expose the Presidents character too. By what ideas and impulses drove the President's decisions on the events that effected everyone of us. Might have it been useful for us Citizens to know that JFK's drug problems and womanizing weaknesses may have had an influence on all of his Bay of Pigs decisions for instance? Did Mr. Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. chronicle the President's Addison disease? His Chronic back problems, due to osteoporosis resulted in several operations and required medications for chronic pain. Did Arthur report that Kennedy also took meperidine (Demerol), methadone (Dolophine), methylphenidate (Ritalin), meprobamate (Miltown), chlordiazepoxide (Librium),amphetamines, and miscellaneous barbiturates and thyroid hormone - though not all at the same time. No he did not, Because Eastern Elitist Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. was a true blue kornerstone in the foundation of the Kennedy Kamelot Kastle. /too bad .com isn't around to really fisk this fake historian. |
| Posted by: RD 2007-03-01 12:40 |
| #2 That's a nice picture. It's the same one you see when you look up "sycophant" in the dictionary... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2007-03-01 10:19 |
| #1 ...All of his accomplishments are true, and he did leave his mark on his profession. OTOH, according to him, St. John of Hyannisport was the Alpha and Omega of the presidency and his opinion of others - especially Republicans - was unpleasant at best. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2007-03-01 06:19 |