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On this week’s Slate Political Gabfest, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss why the Kennedys still loom so large in the American imagination, what would have happened if JFK had lived, and whether JFK's Washington was more or less desirable than today's.
- Here are some of the links and references mentioned during this week's show:"Ask not what your country can do for you," Kennedy said at his inauguration (but he may not have written that line).
- Jackie Kennedy shaped her husband's legacy masterfully.
- Jeff Greenfield's book If Kennedy Lived considers what would have happened in Vietnam, civil rights, the Cold War, and American politics if JFK hadn't been assassinated.
- The majority of Americans believe Kennedy was killed in a conspiracy. Fred Kaplan writes that their theories don't stand up to scrutiny.
Emily chatters about the Supreme Court's decision not to hear a challenge to Texas's abortion law.
John chatters about his mother Nancy Dickerson's NBC broadcast of the return of Kennedy's casket.
David chatters about a video of a quick brown fox jumping over a lazy dog.
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Podcast production by Mike Vuolo. Links compiled by Rebecca Cohen.