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To be clear, Ravitch just published her well thought out reasons why she is voting for Hillary, and I'm with Ravitch on this:
I cast my first vote in 1960, when I was 22. That was before 18-year-olds were allowed to vote. I voted for John F. Kennedy, and I worked in his campaign. I was thrilled when he visited campaign headquarters, and I got to shake his hand. He was exciting and dynamic.
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I cast my first vote in 1960, when I was 22. That was before 18-year-olds were allowed to vote. I voted for John F. Kennedy, and I worked in his campaign. I was thrilled when he visited campaign headquarters, and I got to shake his hand. He was exciting and dynamic.
At the time, critics said he was no better than Richard Nixon.
They talked
about his father, his money, his privilege, his Roman Catholicism;
rumors swirled about his private life but were never reported by the
media.
Public opinion
was so divided about JFK, even among Democrats, that Arthur M.
Schlesinger Jr. felt compelled to write a short book called Kennedy or Nixon: Does It Make Any Difference?
Of course, he argued that Kennedy was infinitely preferable to Nixon.
Kennedy was elected by a razor-thin margin. Some people said that the
corrupt Daley regime in Chicago put him over the top.
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