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<let name=data index=Text>&ldquo;“I never believed in [[John F. Kennedy|Jack]]’s charisma,” [[Gore Vidal|Vidal]] says shortly. JFK, he believes, was “one of our worst presidents”; [[Robert F. Kenney|Bobby]], his brother, was “a phoney, a little Torquemada”; and their father, [[Joseph Kennedy|Joseph]], was “a crook – should have been in jail”. .. So much for Camelot. “But Jack had great charm,” he adds. “So has [[Barack Obama|Obama]]. He’s better educated than Jack. And he’s been a working senator. Jack never went to the office – he wanted the presidency and his father bought it for him.” ... [Vidal']s views on the man the Democratic candidate will have to beat are even more brutal than his views on Hillary: “''You'' could beat [[John McCain|McCain]]! I’ve never met anyone in America who has the slightest respect for him. He went to a private school and came bottom of his class. He smashed up his aeroplane and became a prisoner of war, which he is trying to parlay into ‘war hero’.” .. In his view, McCain is “a goddamned fool. He was on television talking about [[mortgage]]s, and it was quite clear he does not know what a mortgage is. His head rattles as he walks”.&rdquo;</let>
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<let name=data index=TextShort>[[Gore Vidal]] says he believes JFK &ldquo;was "one of our worst presidents"; [[Robert F. Kenney|Bobby]], his brother, was "a phoney, a little [[Torquemada]]"; and their father, [[Joseph Kennedy|Joseph]], was "a crook &ndash; should have been in jail".</let>
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<p>"I never believed in [[John F. Kennedy|Jack]]'s charisma," [[Gore Vidal|Vidal]] says shortly. JFK, he believes, was "one of our worst presidents"; [[Robert F. Kenney|Bobby]], his brother, was "a phoney, a little [[Torquemada]]"; and their father, [[Joseph Kennedy|Joseph]], was "a crook &ndash; should have been in jail".</p>
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<p>So much for Camelot. "But Jack had great charm," he adds. "So has [[Barack Obama|Obama]]. He's better educated than Jack. And he's been a working senator. Jack never went to the office &ndash; he wanted the presidency and his father bought it for him."</p>
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<p>[Vidal']s views on the man the Democratic candidate will have to beat are even more brutal than his views on [[Hillary Clinton|Hillary]]: "''You'' could beat [[John McCain|McCain]]! I've never met anyone in America who has the slightest respect for him. He went to a private school and came bottom of his class. He smashed up his aeroplane and became a prisoner of war, which he is trying to parlay into "war hero".</p>
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<p>In his view, McCain is "a goddamned fool. He was on television talking about [[mortgage]]s, and it was quite clear he does not know what a mortgage is. His head rattles as he walks".</p>
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