delivered. i find it stunning and quite moving that in this week when we re considering the 50th anniversary of the assassination the gallop survey has shown once again kennedy ranks at the very top of modern american presidents and that is true for young people as well as for people like me who were alive and remember his presidency. he inspired it. it was a gift of eloquence, charm, wit, vision. and he made his share of mistakes especially in the first two years of office but he learned and he was inspiring. my book is about the third year which i think is a gift of leadership that is so spectacular, not so well understood i would say actually because people say oh, he did this, he did that. but by the third year or after the miracle of the world escaping the cuban missile