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We have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious family.... We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy breasts.

P.J. O'Rourke

P.J. (Patrick Jake) O'Rourke (b. 1947), U.S. journalist. "Mordred Had a Point—Camelot Revisited," Give War A Chance (1992).

"Two were shot," O'Rourke wrote of the Kennedys, "but under the most romantic circumstances and not, as might have been hoped, after due process of law."

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