Saturday, January 2, 1960
January 2, 1960
In the evening, JFK (who was about ready to launch campaigning for the 1960 election) spoke with historian and Pulitzer Prize winner Arthur Schlesinger. Schlesinger later reported that Jack,
“…conveyed an intangible feeling of depression. I had the sense that he feels himself increasingly hemmed in as a result of a circumstance over which he has no control – his religion; and he inevitably tends toward gloom and irritation when he considers how the circumstance may deny him what he thinks his talent and efforts have earned.”
[23,p.246-7]
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