If you have followed my blog for several years, you already know this is a repost. When I started the presidential collection, Kennedy was one of the first 10 or so that I drew. This is from 2009. That being said, let's get into some information about President Kennedy.
John F. Kennedy - 35th President of the United States - 11x14 - Graphite
John F. Kennedy realized how effective you could be in front of a television, and fucking destroyed Nixon in their presidential debate. They were both cordial, but Nixon looked stiff and someone the nation couldn’t relate to. After the debate, Kennedy posted on his personal Facebook account, ‘Nixon was sweating like a pig lol.’
This televised debate is what helped Kennedy win the election. He was relatively unknown at the time. As America’s first Catholic president, he wrestled with the same ignorant ass questions that Mitt Romney faced as a Mormon. The televised debate was so effective that it would be 16 years before there was another one. Both Lyndon Johnson and later on, Nixon again, refused to participate in them because of how powerful the visual medium was.
Kennedy’s father made such a shit ton of money bootlegging and pimping, he was able to donate his entire presidential salary to various charitable causes. He feared running against George Romney, Mitt Romney’s father, and considered dropping Johnson from his ticket. His promiscuity is no secret, but a little known secret is that he used the Secret Service to smuggle women in and out of the White House.
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