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 | | From: | Hottie 4 Dik | | Subject: | Re: MILLIONS | | Date: | Sat, 11 Dec 2004 20:14:52 GMT |
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 | aggressive, if that's what you mean. Adorable and sweet. (p.
181)
In another instance, years later, Kennedy was dating the
beautiful Bab Beckwith. She invited Kennedy up to her apartment
after he had wined and dined her. There was champagne and low
music on the radio. But then a news broadcast came on and JFK
leaped up, ran to the radio, and turned up the volume to listen
to it. Offended, Beckwith threw him out.
Another curious observation that the book establishes is that
Kennedy did not smoke and was only a social drinker. So if, as I
detailed in the Mary Meyer tale, Kennedy ended up a White House
coke-sniffer and acid head, it was a definite break with the
past.
The Blairs' book established some paradigms that would be
followed in the anti-Kennedy genre. First, and probably foremost,
is the influence of Kennedy's father in his career. In fact, Joe
Kennedy's hovering presence over all his children is a prime
motif of the book. The second theme that will be followed is the
aforementioned female associations. The third repeating pattern
the Blairs' established is the use of Kennedy's health problems
as some kind of character barometer. That because Kennedy and his
circle were not forthright about this, it indicates a covert
tendency and a penchant for covering things up.
It would be easy to dismiss The Search for JFK as a slanted book,
and even easier to argue that the authors had an agenda. Clay
Blair w
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