I was looking up an old TV miniseries I remember that dramatized the life of Jacqueline Kennedy. It was called A Woman Named Jackie. It aired in 1991; I remember watching it alone in my dorm during the fall break of my first year of college. Everyone else in my suite had gone away for the holiday, and it was so nice to have the entire place to myself.
Well, it turns out that Sarah Michelle Gellar played young Jackie!
I was digging into the New York Times archives the other day to read stories about JFK’s assassination. I’m reading a book that takes place during the Kennedy years, and the other day the Dallas district attorney released some long-stored documents related to the assassination, so I got interested.
While digging, I came across a short article that ran on the morning of November 22, 1963.
Catholics Can Eat Meat At Kennedy Lunch Today
DALLAS, Nov. 21 (UPI) – Roman Catholics who attend tomorrow’s luncheon for President Kennedy have been given a special dispensation and may eat meat, a church spokesman confirmed today.
Sirloin steak will be served. Catholics are generally forbidden to eat meat on Fridays.
“Since most of the people at the luncheon will be non-Catholics we felt it would be easier to give a dispensation,” said the Rev. J. A. Schumacher of the Dallas-Fort Worth diocese.
He said President Kennedy would not have needed a dispensation.
“Since he is commander in chief of the military, he is a soldier,” Father Schumacher said. “The law says soliders don’t have to abstain.”
Kennedy never made it to the luncheon.
Pam is dead-on about why Hillary Clinton has been tanking. Some choice quotes:
Our country’s issues with gender bias places everything Clinton does under a microscope…. However, I would argue that gender may play less of a role in this race because of the broad demographic voting patterns we are seeing here. I think the problem is that the woman is Hillary Clinton — it’s quite possible that a woman could have faired better in this race, just not this one.
The problem isn’t the policy positions, I think the main dismay among the Clintonistas is that the voters are responding to something Obama has — charisma and a message that connects — that she cannot match, and that they don’t know how to successfully counter that.
Unfortunately it’s pretty hard to wag your finger at the American public and tell them not to be fooled, or that they are stupid for thinking with their hearts, not their heads. That doesn’t garner more votes, in fact it can cause blowback.
Hillary is now trying to win the nomination by brute force, with the help of idiots like Mark Penn. While Obama’s campaign entices and inspires, her campaign tries to tell people how stupid they are for wanting to vote for him. It makes her seem tone-deaf when it comes to people skills. Is this how she’d run her presidency?
If she manages to bounce back and become the nominee (it’s possible; there’s a debate tomorrow night and another one next week, and debates have a way of turning things around, and Obama has been diffident during debates), I’ll fully support her. She’s a Democrat with Democratic policy ideas and she’d be lots better than McCain. And I still want to like her. I don’t like not liking her.
But she’s not making it easy.