Where we're you when Nixon resigned?

[Juan Marrero]

President Kennedy was a marvellous example of the man meeting his moment. The country could luxuriate, just fifteen years after the end of WW II, in its supreme golbal status and who better to head it than a charismatic, eloquent young war hero with a beautiful wife. His Presidency left a mixed record. In the first year, the foreigh policy was a disaster--Berlin, the Vienna Summit, the Bay of Pigs. He got better. Domestically, he redeemed himself with a late speech on civil rights and introduced legislation that perhaps only LBJ could push through. As to his historical status, I am reminded of something Truman said (possibly a little wistfully): "heroes know when to die."