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  • Countdown 1960

    5
    By Mr Subro
    Excellent expose on a watershed election in America. Removing the curtain on Camelot, revealing JFK’s father as the Wizard of Oz (with the assistance of the mafia and Mayor Daley)pulling the strings to put his son in the White House.
  • Great read… until the last chapter

    1
    By Jim473848
    Mr. Wallace’s conclusions are flawed in my opinion. He went into great detail about how the 1960 election was impacted by fraud, involvement of organized crime, and even leaking of national security secrets. It was not a fair election. To call the 1960 election a peaceful transition of power as the founders intended asks us to accept the outcomes of elections even if they were stolen. In this case, the insurrection was one of stealth. Undetected by the American voters at the time. Before you call me a Trumper, I would like to say that I think Trump could have handled 2020 differently and perhaps January 6th wouldn’t have happened. I don’t think election fraud was a new thing in 1960, nor do I believe it has miraculously disappeared since then. I do think that the silver lining of the 2020 election is that we are applying more scrutiny to our elections than ever before. We should keep striving for free and fair elections. Political parties driven by a an unvarnished for power will continue to skew the rules in their favor. The voters need to check that power through a demand for transparency. I’m disappointed that Mike doesn’t address any of this in his conclusion. Instead, he calls Nixon a good loser. Maybe he actually just perpetuated a flawed system of corruption that continues to this day. Consider this… Watergate may never have happened if the 1960 election was on the up and up. Kennedy may have died an old man. LBJ would have never been president, and so Vietnam could have been different. There are a lot of “ifs” in those statements, but there is no denying that the 1960s and 1970s could have been drastically different. Maybe for the better.
  • Typical Chris Wallace

    3
    By elderbob2
    Good read, but he couldn’t resist dumping on Trump at the end. He traded a great career at Fox for a failed stint at CNN.