February 2012
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Feb 16th
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Feb 15th
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Feb 14th
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Feb 13th
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Feb 13th
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According to J Edgar Hoover, Jack allegedly had an affair with a Nazi woman during World War II. This piece of information was one of the reasons the Kennedy administration took so long to jump into the civil rights movement in the south.
Feb 11th
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Women were known to break down the barriers during his speeches, because they adored him so much, to try to get at him during his campaign.
Feb 10th
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Feb 9th
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Part of the reason Kennedy won his election was because he had the courage to talk about the missile gap and the Cuban invasion. What is interesting about this is, of course, a) there was no missile gap and b) Nixon could not say anything about the Cuban invasion because he knew state secrets, so had he spoken, he would have likely revealed too much.
Feb 9th
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