Super-performance! Â
Matthew Yglesias tries to make sense out of Gallop’s opinion polling on presidents by age, and comes up puzzled, especially by Kennedy’s over-performance across the ideological spectrum.
“I can’t imagine a coherent ideological viewpoint that would justify the high ratings Americans over-35 give to Kennedy… if you could take the Kennedy-Johnson years as a whole, then divide them up into one presidency that was dominated by Vietnam and another one that’s responsible for Civil Rights and the Great Society, then you’d have one shitty president and one great president. A lot of people seem to have basically decided to divide things up this way and call the shitty president “Johnson†while the good president is called “Kennedy.†That, however, doesn’t have a great deal to do with reality.“
Readers Are Leaders! Â 
Boston’s John F. Kennedy Presidential Library is turning that frown upside down for Presidents Day, showing off a Kennedy error for the holiday.
Then Senator Kennedy acquired A. Lincoln by Ross F. Lockridge from the Library of Congress at some point during his time on the Hill, and never returned it.
Now the world may gaze upon the tome at the Kennedy Library before it disappears once more into the L of C’s catacombs.
Missed The Bus  
TCU Killed Kennedy! 
Now it can be told! the Fort Worth Star-Telegram is working the hell out of JFK’s pre-assassination overnight in Ft. Worth, and revisits once again Texas Christian University’s role in the road to martyrdom.
Kennedy’s plans originally included receipt of a TCUÂ honorary degree, but they changed when TCU’s board rejected the Papist President as not the right type of Christian.
In one of history’s great Woulda Coulda Shouldas, a TCU degree ceremony might have pushed Kennedy’s Dallas motorcade later in the day, spoiling Oswald’s shot.
  Kennedy held a rally at his Ft. Worth hotel instead, then headed for Dallas.
That Kennedy Magic  
The Dallas Observer surveys the vast menagerie of reenactors and others who gathered at Dealey Plaza to mark the 45th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination,
To Coin A Phrase  
Long in the forefront of peculiar coinage, Liberia has thrilled numesmaticly inclined cold war enthusiasts with their talking Kennedy coin. It features audio of JFK’s storied “Ich bin ein Berliner†speech in which he either saluted doughty Berliners or embraced pastry.
   The Liberians are known for their broadminded pantheon of heroes, with George W. Bush earning a stamp for some debt transactions.
