Kennedy

JFK: a mediocre statesman, completely lacking in foresight and common sense in foreign policy, where the real brain was McNamara. He could have easily shined Khrushchev's shoes; De Gaulle outmaneuvered him in every direct confrontation. He didn’t understand that the Marshall Plan era was over, he didn’t grasp Europe’s renewed economic role after '57, and he exploited the issue of equality and civil rights chiefly as an electoral tool. BOB, now he was a great one...