what the country learned only later was how well this suave exterior hid his secret life, the risky affairs, that if revealed, could have ruined everything. his addison s disease which had almost killed him in 47 and a back operation that required him to take steroids and reliance on energy-boosting amphetamines, which may have compromised his judgment. everything about his health was a lie. he looked like a god, but as bobby would say, if a mosquito bites my brother, the mosquito dies. but america, knowing none of this, had bigger worries, as the country faced numerous challenges. from the bay of pigs, the berlin wall. the toughest test came in october 1962, when u.s. spy planes photographed soviet nuclear missile bases in cuba,
charismatic. there was so much joy people had. that s what we lot of. the sense of it s joy and fun having a president like this. rooting for the moon launch. i pointed this out. jackie wanted two things. the eternal name and his initials put on the next rocket. he wanted to beat the soviets to the moon. he was a competitor to win the cold war safely. let me play on the clip, this was more things about kennedy we didn t always know in public. what the country learned only later was how well this suave exterior hid his secret life. the risky affairs that if revealed could have ruined everything. his addison s disease that almost killed him in 1947 and again in a 1954 back operation that required him to take steroids and a reliance on