The time:
August, 1963. Trouble
in Camelot.
Kennedy’s Vietnam crisis was still
secret for the moment, but it seemed far more dangerous to him. “My God! My government’s
coming apart!” Kennedy told Charlie Bartlett.
-- Richard Reeves, President
Kennedy: Profile of Power
(1993), p. 567
~
And thus we come to the end of our little series of
historiographic finger-exercises, a trip down (repressed-)memory lane. The upshot is (in the words of
the sage):
Nihil sub sole novum.
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