Lol at "...he made a reference to Emerson--I don't know where Emerson talks about decentralization...but these ideas seemed radical to me."
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Basically sounds like he wanted to be an old-school Republican. Which the Kennedys likely would have been had it not been for the anti-Catholic bias among MA Republicans at that time. Successful Dem. presidents usually incorporate some elements of old-school Republicanism.
"[RFK] found in Ralph Waldo Emerson's thesis of self-reliance the alternative to big government as a way to cure poverty."
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"Furthermore, Beran argues that by passing through the furnace of family tragedy, Kennedy had become both Greek and Emersonian."
That's a strange line.
The Beran book is "The Last Patrician." Will have to read it.
Schlesinger also got into it.
Lol, another "X is credited with coining this term in 1970, although Emerson actually used it 1842."
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