Over at Gay Patriot via Legal Insurrection a good Kennedy deed is brought out of the memory hole:
I visited Jessica’s father Boris several times when I was in college. As most Soviet emigrés, he had strong anti-Communist views and great respect for then then-President of the United States, Ronald Wilson Reagan. And though the then-senior Senator from Massachusetts harshly criticized (and actively sought to thwart) the Gipper’s aggressive foreign policy, Boris refused to criticize Kennedy, always recalling how he helped secure his release.
He only had kind words for the late Massachusetts Democrat.
The full article is here concerning the sick little girl who was allowed to leave the Soviet Union due to Kennedy’s intervention.
I couldn’t help but remember this scene from Boomtown (my favorite 9th doctor story)
“…that’s how you live with yourself, that’s how you slaughter millions, because once in a while on a whim, when the wind is in the right direction you happen to be kind.”
Like a corrupt Duke eighteenth century Duke who gives a gift to the peasants on Christmas once in a while he helped one leave. That’s how he was able to justify trying to keep the other hundreds of millions in chains.
If you want a longer version of that scene it is here.
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