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Authored by: albert on Friday, June 14 2013 @ 07:25 PM EDT |
Very disappointing. Some folks are awed by the rich and/or famous. It's kinda
disgusting to me; my heroes are usually not rich, and infamous. Here's a story
about JFK:
"It was an interesting question.
President John F. Kennedy wanted to know how a country of four million people
could have produced the three greatest geniuses of the eighteenth
century--Franklin, Hamilton and Jefferson?
It was the summer of 1961, and at the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Jack Kennedy
had just finished playing backgammon with Gore Vidal. Vidal did not have an
answer. Said Kennedy: “You know in this, uh, job . . . I get to meet
everybody--all these great movers and shakers and the thing I’m most struck by
the lot of them is how second-rate they are. Then you read all those debates
over the Constitution . . . nothing like that now. Nothing.”
Source: http://www.richardnisley.com/blog/earlyamerican.php%3farticle=86
Second rate, indeed. Money and power are the measure of the man (or woman).
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