John F Kennedy

If I could forecast stock performance as I do rhetoric, I could be the King of Wall Street. In my post of July 22, "What Will Barack Say in Berlin?" I...

Obama's speech had high points and deserves applause -- but it's ultimately forgettable because he failed to deliver the most important lines where they most mattered.

The association of Obama with Kennedy was due, in large part, to their shared oratorical talents. This week's Berlin speech makes that association even more pertinent.

For all the advantages that Barack Obama has this year, the same problems that nearly led to Kennedy losing to Nixon are lurking just below the surface of the 2008 political landscape.

The rapturous reception that greets Obama is warranted insofar as the dream he pitches, while idyllic, is theoretically attainable.

There are two fundamental schools of thought on foreign policy: suppose the Israelis launch a preemptive attack against Iran -- what does the United States do?

Barack's more like Jack than Bobby: Both built campaigns on an undifferentiated idealism and sheer personal magnetism. Both are post ideological figures who belie cultural stereotypes.

I love Barack's his ideas about a new politics of hope -- I attended MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech. But I worry that Obama is more Harvard law than Chicago street fighter.

I love Barack Obama. He inspires a nation. He's our generation's JFK. Our LBJ. Our HSBC. Because we can bank on him doing the right thing for this country.

For nearly her entire 51 years, Caroline Kennedy has been part of the socio-political fabric of this nation. She first captivated America as the tin...

Kennedy's legacy to my generation is his mythology -- his superheroic ideal of a politician we now simply call Bobby. We will continue to search for "Bobby" for the foreseeable future.

These moments are memorable not because they are gaffes, but epiphanies, illuminating what many voters already think of a candidate. The images endure not because they were aberrations, but revelations.

Where is the apology to America still traumatized by the assassinations of Martin, Malcolm, John and Bobby? To the African American community still traumatized by the fear that the same could happen to Barack?

President John F. Kennedy balanced diplomacy, sanctions, and the threat of force to carry the day and avoid World War III. Today, his brother continues to carry the torch lit by his inaugural speech.

The Kennedy family has always had special meaning in my life. I know exactly where I was when a friend yelled out to me in 1963, "The president has been shot."

If there's a lesson to be learned by this week's 90th anniversary of airmail, it is that the next president of the United States has every opportunity to be another Kennedy, Roosevelt or Lincoln.

Sen. Barack Obama went one step further today in his pushback against presumptive GOP presidential nominee Sen. John McCain and President Bush on appe...

Her boyfriend had been one of the most popular and best students in the history of Just Like High School. He played first-chair saxophone in the Just...

If elected, Obama, could become a magic speaker in the vein of the Big Three; the extent to which he can go off-the-cuff in a Trumanesque manner remains unclear.

Words do matter and few presidents knew this better than JFK (who of course also understood that rhetorical power has its limits). How JFK came up wi...

If African Americans don't turn out for Clinton, or vote against her, to any degree less than the last few presidential contests, she will lose.

It's becoming clear that Obama needs to do a better job speaking to the kind of voter once condescendingly described as a "regular person."

"I'm proud to be a liberal." That was John F. Kennedy back in 1960. You haven't heard too many people in public life saying that in recent years, but I think you'll be hearing a lot more of it.

I was privileged to serve as America's Ambassador to Ireland during the birth of the peace process. It's essential to understand the true lesson that time can teach us about leadership.