Here's how J.F.K. came to be killed:
Khrushchev hung up the phone, he lost his job. He was out to pasture. Brezhnev was in.
Now, Kennedy had has hardliners — Gen. Curtis LeMay was one, I've read the Kennedys regarded him as clinically-insane, and he is a probable source for Gen. Buck Turgidson (if not quite Gen. Jack D. Ripper — the crazy general who launches the attack) in 'Dr. Strangelove.' "We could have written our own ticket!" he said, of how Kennedy handled the Cuban Missile Crisis — you know, *peace*. But that's not what the Russian hard-liners did. They *fired* him. They *fired* their guy, sent him packing. "You goddamn pussy!" you betcha yer ASS that's what they said to them. "You could have told the Americans what for, and instead you wilted!"
You betcha.
I have to say when I came across this fact lately in my reading, I wasn't exactly thunderstruck by it, but it did stick out to me — "what do you mean, Khrushchev had to go putter around the house, as a direct result of resolving the Cuban Missile Crisis amicably with Kennedy??" 🤔 But that was where happened — he was *outta there*. He was *yesterday's news*. Like, *instantly*.
This is why everything makes sense, all of a sudden — right down to Vietnam, and Lyndon Johnson not seeking a second term. Right down to Lee Harvey Oswald saying "I'm ... a patsy," and not making it through the week-end, rather than saying "That son of a bitch! I'm glad he's dead he was the devil and I'd do it a hundred times more" and blah-blah-blah all that shit we'd know he'd say by now it's obvious it's plain as day, he'd say it over and over again and never shut up about it, that's what a *real* nut is like. But not this time. "I'm just a patsy," he says, which really means "please don't kill me!" but no such luck. He probably knew how it goes, he probably knew it was coming but hoping for better, but without much enthusiasm. But still. And then Bobby doesn't make it to President because he'd have the clout to look into it and he *mustn't do so*.
Lyndon Johnson was an old man. I know he was tapped for that reason, they knew it might come to this, it might come to that easily. The hard-liners over there see an old man, Brezhnev can say, "Yes but this that and the other thing." They all hold their cards close. They're all scared of each other. But with this young guy Kennedy there, they're like "What the fuck did we get rid of Khrushchev for ... ??" There's a hot seat, and the energy of itching-to-use-it. Get them before they get us. Etc. He can't say no to all of them. He *can't*. That'd how these things happen.
As soon as Khrushchev hung up the phone and lost his job, Kennedy was as good as dead — and *fast*. And *hopefully*.
Lyndon Johnson looked relieved when he was being sworn in. Jesus Christ! Can you imagine?? 🤔 Every hour of every day they're shitting their pants. He doesn't run again, Great Society, Vietnam, who fuckin' cares. He grumbles, but if people thought he was really disappointed about that, he might as well be disappointed about Government parking or school lunches or airplane food or some shit.
Vietnam! Christ, what did people die in, there ... the 10,000s?? It's like a phantom limb, keeping the plane aloft, the boat asteered, until eventually someone brings it into to recall it's senses and to port or to dock or whatever ...
*The world didn't fuckin' end*.
He was probably grateful to drop dead as soon as he did, and it was not long after he gave up the Presidency.
*He must have been white as a sheet and borderline heart-attack most days until Kennedy died and the Kremlin knew they didn't have someone they could kick around and was still in play when they're guy Khrushchev had been shown the door with no undue haste and retreat and DISPATCH* ...
Christ! Know your History, do ya ... ??
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