esident, a star of the media unlike any President before or since, but his Presidency fell far short of any national political awakening. His personal popularity always remained oddly apolitical, divorced form any policy or program (Miroff 22).
Miroff also finds that Kennedy was not fully committed to legislative issues. Miroff further believes that Kennedy was not the populist he has been depicted as being, and he states that Kennedy "regarded the American people more as spectators than participants in the political drama" (Miroff 24).
At the time of his death, Kennedy was making a journey to garner support for his policies and to raise money for the 1964 election cycle (Reeves 657). Texas was growing more and more hostile to the Administration at the time, and among the groups identified as dangerous and working in that area were right-wingers, the far left, anti-Castro cubans, Pue
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