The wit of JFK

[BootinUp]

[rurallib]

1. thanks for the chuckle

I remember that one about women's pay from my childhood.

[BootinUp]

2. My pleasure lib. :)

[byronius]

3. Excellent post.

[BootinUp]

4. Credit goes to the Youtube poster

who saved some history for posterity!

[mobeau69]

5. He even looked better in person.

Shook his hand when I was in 4th grade. I'll never forget that day.

[BootinUp]

6. Some memories stay with us forever. nt

[Lifelong Protester]

7. Thanks for that.

We need a reminder we did not always have a buffoon in the WH.

[Mr.Bill]

8. JFK actually hired Mort Sahl to write canned comedy answers

to anticipated (and sometimes planted) questions. My source of this information is Mort Sahl himself in a conversation I had with him in the late 80s.

[BootinUp]

9. Great info. It doesn't diminish him

in the least.

[Mr.Bill]

10. Of course not. Hire the best,

get excellent results. Obama hired the best to write his words at the White House Correspondent's Dinner. And like Kennedy, he had the talent to deliver the material.

[BootinUp]

11. He had a lot of talent and other things that

the current occupant does not have.

[tclambert]

12. It made me laugh . . . and it made me cry. Imagine where we'd be if he and Bobby had lived.

I think we'd be on Mars.

[Mr.Bill]

14. Wecould have been to Mars and

had universal health care with the money we have wasted on unwinnable wars.

[BootinUp]

15. You r trying to make us cry?

[Mr.Bill]

16. Why not?

Join me.

[mountain grammy]

13. He was a treat.

Even as a teenager, I watched his speeches and news conferences whenever I could. Like a lot of teenage girls then, I was smitten.

[NBachers]

17. I can remember watching his skillful press conferences- we were all part of it, somehow.