‘I knew John Kennedy, and …’

If John Connally really did, he, like a whole lot of others, kept secrets.

“JFK rarely let legal specifics deter his exercise of presidential power. At his behest in 1961, the Internal Revenue Service set up a ‘strike force,’ the Ideological Organizations Project, targeting groups opposing the administration.

“In 1962, outraged that American steel manufacturers had raised prices, he ordered wiretaps, IRS audits and dawn FBI raids on steel executives’ homes.”

http://reason.com/archives/2013/11/05/getting-past-the-john-f-kennedy-mytholog/print

(I was 14 when Kennedy was elected. He exuded a sense of hope. But, so did Hitler, Mussolini and a bunch other politicians who all assumed “Just do as I say, and you will be better off.”)