So someone on the forum asked me about the Kennedy family a while back. I got to thinking -- it's really interesting how, after JFK's assassination, Jackie used Camelot to illustrate her husband's administration. She used the kingdom in the context that it was an ideal and handsome court, meaning to say that USA under JFK had been similar. But, really, while JFK did have some lasting policies (a lot of them owed to his brother Bobby's aggressiveness as Attorney General), his term was fortunately in the aftermath of Allied victory. Furthermore, the country was, comparatively, in a great spot -- Cuba and the DR, anyone?
To be fair, the Kennedys' penchant for promiscuity was comparable to many illustrations of Camelot. There was even a touch of pseudo-incest -- among JFK's hand-me-downs to RFK included Marilyn Monroe and Jackie herself. One chronicler calls Bobby and Jackie the Kennedy Lancelot and Guinevere. That man knew nothing. Though I suppose that was hardly what Jackie was thinking at the time.
Hmm, I apologise for rambling a little there. I just find it ironic that, in the face of death, matters can be spun so romantically, sometimes even erroneously so. Jackie and Jack had never had an ideal marriage. Funny how, post-mortem, he'd gone from philandering adulterer to King Arthur himself. Like he could hold a candle.
They say she'd never loved Jack more than she had when he had been stolen from her. This, I can understand -- my heart was full to bursting for Arthur when I stood before his grave.
Mea culpa. Mea maxima culpa. God, I need to go for a run.