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The only diary known to be written by President John F. Kennedy is up for auction on April 26th:
A diary kept by President John F Kennedy as a young man travelling in Europe, revealing his fascination with Adolf Hitler, is up for auction. Kennedy, then 28, predicted "Hitler will emerge from the hatred that surrounds him now as one of the most significant figures who ever lived". "He had in him the stuff of which legends are made," he continued.
Kennedy wrote the entry in the summer of 1945 after touring the German dictator's Bavarian mountain retreat. It is thought by historians to be the only diary [ever] kept by the 35th US president.
[...] He wrote that Hitler "had boundless ambition for his country which rendered him a menace to the peace of the world, but he had a mystery about him in the way he lived and in the manner of his death that will live and grow after him". The 61-page diary was kept by Kennedy around four months after Hitler committed suicide. [...] In a description of the auction, [Deirdre Henderson] wrote: "When JFK said that Hitler 'had in him the stuff of which legends are made', he was speaking to the mystery surrounding him, not the evil he demonstrated to the world."
(Score: 1, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 25 2017, @06:34AM (5 children)
Ex-Wife Reveals Trump had book on Hitler and read it
Media: gigantic scandal and proof he should be impeached!
JFK "fascinated" with Hitler and read his autobiography also
Media: huh? what? oh look over there, a squirrel
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 25 2017, @06:54AM
They already killed JFK so there's no need to impeach him.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by maxwell demon on Saturday March 25 2017, @07:02AM (1 child)
First: Trump is relevant now. JFK is no longer in office, and in fact, no longer alive. Therefore anything Trump does and thinks is important right now, while everything JFK did or thought is only of historic interest. If the same had been revealed decades after Trump died, the media would not have cared much either.
Second: It clearly wasn't a gigantic scandal. Indeed, I had to search the net to make sure you didn't just invent that event. If it had been a gigantic scandal, I surely would have heard about it.
Third: Since that topic came up before he was president, impeaching him wasn't even an option at that time.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Saturday March 25 2017, @07:05AM
Oh, and I forgot:
Fourth: It was not a book on Hitler, it was a book of Hitler's speeches which he allegedly read. Big difference.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 25 2017, @12:39PM
Your attention span must be shorter than the medias. JFK is dead. Had that been possibly known back then, with the war still fresh in everyone's mind, it would have hurt him.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 25 2017, @06:15PM
Maybe 50 years after Trump's death some interesting and half-way redeeming things might emerge about him the same way as Hitler.
Hitler and Trump are important figures to study, even if, perhaps especially if, one is horrified by the things that they catalyzed: the holocaust and N-day respectively.
But they were just men. One man alone couldn't have caused either event. It took a nation of men in both cases, and a leader cannot lead unless his followers follow. It's humanity's greatest strength and greatest weakness.