“ One biographer said Kennedy lived along the line where charm became power. ”
Reagan's failure to become a truly great movie star has been ascribed to project menace, sexuality, or even moral ambiguity.
~ Scott Farris
They (Reagan and Kennedy) had some combination of cheerfulness and vulnerability that made them seem like boys on adventure who had become lost in needed a small kindness to get them back on the right path.
In preaching conservative doctrine, Goldwater's jeremiads seemed to be preaching the end of the old world, while Reagan's pep talks seemed to trumpet the beginning of a new one.
Kennedy echoed Stanley Baldwin that a democracy is always two years behind a dictator.
