Ted Sorensen, who died the other day, and his former colleague Arthur Schlesinger Jr were the principal hagiographers of the Kennedy for half a century. You couldn't find an article or program in which they weren't there to rehash their present-at-the-creation stories- and their own, increasingly-over-time important roles in them.
Both were, in their own ways, worthy public servants, but maybe with Sorensen's passing the Kennedy administration- elected fifty years ago- can finally take its proper place in history's archives.
I expect Sorensen, Schlesinger and their like to pump up their former boss. That's what ex-staffers do.
ReplyDeleteWhat I've never understood is why the media has gone along with it lock, stock and barrel.
And we're coming up on the 50th anniversary of JFK's election and inauguration, so we're going to be regaled with the same old tales of saintly greatness once again.