There was much more to America’s 35th president than his youth,his style and his tragic deathEven on Monday, 100 years after John F Kennedy’s birth, and it is tough to imagine America’s 35th president as an passe man. Everything about JFK is overshadowed by the lasting tragedy of the graceful young leader who was chop down in his prime by the assassin in Dallas.
It is easy to see now that Kennedy was the first charismatic politician of the television age. He set a media standard for presidentialism that others have tried to match,but none has equalled. When he decided not to wear hats, American hat sales plummeted. Even the Kennedy Presidential Library is marking his centenary under the slogan “Visionaries never move out of style”.
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Source: theguardian.com