The Kennedys and Excellence

I was watching the documentary about the Kennedys.

They're mostly very brilliant. JFK graduated from Harvard cum laude. His older brother, Joe, was an alum of Harvard Law. I'm not yet done reading articles and watching documentaries about them. They give me inspiration. I wonder what's their secret for their successes.

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They're mostly very brilliant. JFK graduated from Harvard cum laude. His older brother, Joe, was an alum of Harvard Law. I'm not yet done reading articles and watching documentaries about them. They give me inspiration. I wonder what's their secret for their successes.

A pushy father that was very hard on them physically and verbally. Their father also cheated on their mother extremely often. They didn’t have a loving home life.

Anything was better than home. Also you need to realize the educational and grading system then is much different than now.

They were charismatic and well liked. They attended all the right parties and made friends easily. Their fathers ambition is what launched them to where they ended up....

The marriage to Jackie was to clean up his image as a playboy. JFK literally did whatever his dad told him to do.

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Really? How do you know such things?

Kennedy wanted a gradual troop withdrawal from Vietnam. Orders to do so were already in place on the day he died.

https://www.thenation.com/article/jfks-vietnam-withdrawal-plan-fact-not-speculation/

He died in 1963. Interesting how a massive surge in troops occurs right after that date.

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Posted by firebunny
They're mostly very brilliant. JFK graduated from Harvard cum laude. His older brother, Joe, was an alum of Harvard Law. I'm not yet done reading articles and watching documentaries about them. They give me inspiration. I wonder what's their secret for their successes.

A pushy father that was very hard on them physically and verbally. Their father also cheated on their mother extremely often. They didn’t have a loving home life.

Anything was better than home. Also you need to realize the educational and grading system then is much different than now.

They were charismatic and well liked. They attended all the right parties and made friends easily. Their fathers ambition is what launched them to where they ended up....

The marriage to Jackie was to clean up his image as a playboy. JFK literally did whatever his dad told him to do.

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i didnt feel it was a "love" match...but more of a match that suited them for appearances sake.

keeping up appearances.

Posted by firebunny
They're mostly very brilliant. JFK graduated from Harvard cum laude. His older brother, Joe, was an alum of Harvard Law. I'm not yet done reading articles and watching documentaries about them. They give me inspiration. I wonder what's their secret for their successes.

wanting to please the family and father and mother. that's their success.

if you rebel and go against the rules (which alot of parents are fearful of....*shivers*) you are the rebel child no one wants to talk about.

so if you follow the rules and do what they love, you will get everything.

although even the prodigal son gets alot of love too. (gosh i love that story..makes me cry all the time)

i just love stories of redemption.

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Posted by firebunny
They're mostly very brilliant. JFK graduated from Harvard cum laude. His older brother, Joe, was an alum of Harvard Law. I'm not yet done reading articles and watching documentaries about them. They give me inspiration. I wonder what's their secret for their successes.

A pushy father that was very hard on them physically and verbally. Their father also cheated on their mother extremely often. They didn’t have a loving home life.

Anything was better than home. Also you need to realize the educational and grading system then is much different than now.

They were charismatic and well liked. They attended all the right parties and made friends easily. Their fathers ambition is what launched them to where they ended up....

The marriage to Jackie was to clean up his image as a playboy. JFK literally did whatever his dad told him to do.

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How different? Was it easier to ace an exam back in the day? JFK was cum laude.