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1983: How Good a President?
"It is Kennedy's deathday, not his birthday, that we observe. History abruptly left off, and after the shock had begun to pass, the mythmaking began — the mind haunted by the hypothetical, by what might have been."
From: J.F.K. After 20 Years, Nov. 14, 1983

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