The myth of the Kennedys - and the hold - was always the hold of the renegade rich, out there on the frontier beyond accountability.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The Kennedy lifestyle is something that is looked upon favorably by the elites throughout our culture, both political and social.
Kennedy is remembered as a success mainly because of what came after: Johnson and Vietnam. Nixon and Watergate.
I'm a product of the Kennedy era. Kennedy's Inaugural plus the accident of Dean Rusk brought me into the government. Those were my values.
Secrets of the past! Who does not wish to keep the past locked in a cage like a ferocious beast? The rich are sleepless for fear of thieves. The respectable have to guard their reputations in the same way.
I had the fixation that comes with being a Kennedy to be a great man on the big stage.
Robert Kennedy was such an inspiring figure. His interest in politics seemed to come not from a desire for power, but from a need to help our society live up to its ideals.
The energy of the Kennedy years was completely compelling... I had a sense of a generous society eager to change the world. Idealism was very contagious. So that's why I went to America. I didn't intend to stay.
There once was this powerful, both capital and political, class who cared about supporting and affirming a solid middle class in this country.
All great political families have myths: stories they tell themselves about how history happened.
Kennedy was the driving force of reform in America.