Hey, where are all the screams of "racism?"
Meh.
Nothing surprises me anymore. What the interview with Jacqueline Kennedy given by historian Arthur Schlesinger showed was how utterly human she was. So what she didn't "measure up" or meet whatever fictional ideals people have had of her?
That and the fact it should put all this "Camelot" business to rest.
The cult of the personality in politics, however, still lives on.
One need only read the many articles, now trivial as time moves on, gushing over Obama when he got elected.
In the interview she also said: ‘I just can’t see a picture of Martin Luther King without thinking, you know, that man’s terrible.’ And so on... What do you think about that?
ReplyDeleteThe way I see it is who knows in what context she said it? Maybe she had a bad hair day or maybe he was indeed just plain a jerk. He certainly wasn't "moral" where sex was concerned but hey. Orgies?
ReplyDeleteJust another reason why men shouldn't be elevated to such a status. He did an important thing but I'm not sure we should ignore all the other stuff when praising mere mortals.