Notes from “A Question of Character” by Thomas C. Reeves

Wednesday, May 13, 2026

Joseph P. Kennedy Sr was friends with D/FBI J. Edgar Hoover and became an informant for him on Hollywood celebrities with communist tendencies.

As a US Senator, JFK never passed one simple purity test from Eleanor Roosevelt. JFK avoided publicly condemning US Senator Joe McCarthy and his hideous communist witch-hunts because these Irish families were both conservative and friends.

His entire life, wealthy JFK walked around without a nickel in his pockets to even buy a stick of gum. The Kennedy family scion always borrowed money from friends and classmates who would send a bill to his father. Before he embarked on a trip as POTUS, JFK said: "Gosh, I don't have a cent on me!" His father asked a maid to quickly get him an envelope full of cash.

JFK would donate his considerable POTUS salary to charity.

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In April 1961, former PT Boat 109 Commander JFK asked a man with 52 years US Army experience, and who commanded the Pacific Theater of Operations during the Second World War, about a growing problem JFK felt the US was facing: Vietnam. General of the Army Douglas MacArthur (Ret.) warned the young POTUS: "Make Japan, Formosa, and the Philippines your red lines-- not Vietnam. Concentrate on domestic issues." [sic].

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The Chairman of the Board escorting First Lady-to-be Jacqueline Kennedy to the pre-inaugural gala held at the Washington Armory on 19 Jan 1961. Sammy Davis Jr was disinvited from performing with the rest of the "Rat Pack" so as not to offend white supremacist "Dixiecrats." Sammy Davis Jr then became a Republican and years later the first Man of Color to spend a night at the White House at POTUS Richard Nixon's invitation.

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