JFK, the Revisionist President
Many Americans have heard of Profiles in Courage, a book written by President Kennedy, but most people are more familiar with the author than the profiles named. In the book, Kennedy discusses eight United States politicians who displayed enormous courage, risking their careers and their reputations because they took unpopular actions or expressed unpopular beliefs. One of the most noteworthy profiles, given the thesis of my book (Opium Lords), was Senator Robert A. Taft. Kennedy selected Taft as a courageous profile because Taft was the only politician of prominence to publicly criticize the Nuremberg Trials while they were in progress in 1946.
Kennedy's admiration of Taft is consistent with his obvious admiration of Adolf Hitler. Jewish policital forces hated the Kennedys because Joe Kennedy Sr. and his sons admired the German leader. JFK wrote in his 1945 diary the following words about the most hated man of the 20th century:
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After visiting these two places (Berchtesgaden and the Eagle’s lair on Obersalzberg), you can easily understand how that within a few years Hitler will emerge from the hatred that surrounds him now as one of the most significant figures who ever lived. He had boundless ambitions for his country which rendered him a menace to the peace of the world, but he had a mystery about him in the way that he lived and in the manner of his death that will live and grow after him. He had in him the stuff of which legends are made. |
(Prelude To Leadership - The European Diary of John F. Kennedy,
Summer 1945, Regnery Publishing, Inc., Washington DC, p. 74)
The following is the complete text from Chapter 9 of Profiles in Courage where Kennedy describes Robert Taft’s "courageous act" of criticizing the Nuremberg Trials.
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