President John F. Kennedy press conference concerning his Presidential Library

[snoops71]

Speaking of Bush, I wonder why he didn't mention anything about the JFK assassination in his book. Being a former President, I figured he'd have some memories or insight to share.

[namgot]

It takes the audience exactly 1 second to get the joke.Tthey thought JFK was being serious.

[452485]

Does anyone have a bio on Mae Craig

[YouzTube99]

Wit, then substance.

Back then, ANY question might be asked at a press conference and JFK's ability to respond intelligently set the bar so high that no subsequent President has even come close to his level. His concise overview of the then available research technology is remarkable. He would have really appreciated the Internet.

Reagan's quip were good but his grasp of issues was shallow to non-existent.

Ah, Johnny, we hardly knew ye.

[sean2015]

@YouzTube99 Yes yes yes. Excellent point and one which I've thought of many times. If JFK had lived until the 1990s he would've been a strong supporter of the expansion of the Internet. Space and technology were core to his beliefs, and one of Kennedy's favorite hobbies was reading the newspaper. He would've loved the idea of being able to turn on his laptop and read any newspaper in the world with the click of a mouse.

[YouzTube99]

@sean2015: Oh yeah, JFK was a voracious reader and championed the Evelyn Wood speed reading course for his White House staff so they could assimilate information faster -- and presumably feed it back to him!

[marcostar57]

I really enjoyed visiting the JFK library but didn't get to see enough ..I'd like to visit it again. And as for the Bush "library" yea... some comic books and maybe some torture memos could be on display, and the paper shredder he used on our Constitution, too.

[marcostar57]

@spm1021 Honestly how can anyone with half-a brain compare JFK with Bush. But gosh, I'm sorry I didn't notify you personally of my utter disgust for Bush. Yes, he kept me "safe" for 7 years 4 months by illegally spying on me, violating my rights to free speech, waging illegal wars, torturing "enemy combatents, etc, etc, etc... (He failed to keep safe the 3,000 dead on 9-11-01)

[kms624]

Bush won't have to worry about the location of his library - one shelf of picture books will fit just about anywhere.

[spm1021]

@kms624 (9-18-2017)

[VincePalamara]

excellent!

[tirnanog20]

Imagine George Bush trying to answer a question like that. (The Kennedy library was eventually built, not in Cambridge-- Harvard rejected it-- but in a beautiful glittering glass structure at Columbus Point, facing the wild Atlantic. The ocean that Jack Kennedy loved)

[seth917]

George Bush would answer quite well.