and myth and prejudice, so opposed to cant and chlicés, so unwilling to feign or be fooled, to accept or reflect mediocrity, is rare in our world – and even rarer in American Politics. Without demeaning [...] precidency in this country, I do not see how John Kennedy could be ranked below any one of them... He was a big man – much bigger than anyone thought – and all of us are better for having lived in the days [...] of greatness for those who win great wars, not those who prevent them. But in my unobjective view I think it will be difficult to measure John Kenndy by any ordinary historical yardstick. For he was an