An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:
"The feeling is, this is not what we do in American politics," he told BBC North America Editor Mark Mardell. "This is not a banana republic. We don't have coups d'etat, we don't topple governments and kill our leaders."
Mr Dallek said Kennedy's popularity endured in part because Americans have been so disappointed in his successors.
"People want a better life in this country," he said. "They want to think their children are going to do better. And they associate this with Kennedy's youth, his promise, possibility."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-25046604
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