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KelleyGram: Kennedy, Trump and Climate Change

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Below is my latest column in Huffington Post. It's a column that writes itself when
you simply think of President Kennedy and Trump in the same sentence. Please
feel free to go toHuffington Postand comment.

Also, in light of Trump's decision to pull out of the Paris Accords, I put together a
postUnderstanding Trumps Calamitous Climate Change Decision in 20Tweets.

In addition for the 12th year in a row I've been
named as a finalist for the LA Press Club's Southern
California Journalism Awards for my legal newsletter
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LinkstothelatestpostsonTodayPastandmyother
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You can read this KelleyGramonline here.

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JFK, Trump and the Tragedy of Tolemac

May 28, 2007

In claiming he will Make America Great Again, Donald Trump is evoking some pre
Vietnam era of prosperity where the world drove American cars and we won wars. Maybe
he is evoking the storied days of Camelot when PresidentKennedy led the nation back
from a recession to have the best GDP growth rate of any modern President.

From his first minutesas President, when he announced that the torchhas been passed
to a new generation of Americans, Kennedy boldly pressed the nation to seize the
future. We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not
because they are easy, but because they are hard.

He pledged to defend human rights and liberty at home and abroad. He challenged the
nationtofulfill its promise and end racial segregation. When the Soviet Union built a
hideous wall in Berlin, he came to the beleaguered citys defense and declared
All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin, and, therefore,
as a free man, I take pride in the words Ich bin ein Berliner!
As a veteran who lost a brother in the warandscholar who wrote about the events that
led to World War II, Kennedy appreciated the dangerous times he lived in. His resolve and
composure forced the Soviets to back down in the Cuban Missile Crisis and avoided a
potential nuclear war, while his foresight led him to begin the era of arms control with the
Nuclear Test Ban.

As we celebrate his centennial, Kennedy remains the countrys most popular modern
President and he almost predicted this in the last year of his life when he said
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have
endurance without death.
President Trump is Camelots negative image Tolemac you might say. President
Kennedy propelled us into the space age, while Trump seeks the comfort of an age that
has long since past.

President Kennedy said we would pay any price, bear any burden. . . oppose any foe to
assure the survival and the success of liberty at home or abroad, while President Trump
has surrounded himself with white supremacist, embraced bigotry and praised brutal
dictators in Egypt, Turkey, the Philippines and Russia.

When the Soviet Union threatened Berlin, President Kennedy stood shouldertoshoulder
with them. As our NATO allies grow alarmed by Russiasrecent annexation of Crimea and
more aggressive posture, Trump instead has scolded themand offered no reassurance
should Russia strike into Europe. This led German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the new
leader of the free world, to declare that Europe can no longer count on its longtime friend
and must fend for itself.

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Kennedy embraced science to lead us into space which was a major contributor to the
growth of Silicon Valley and the technology revolution we see today. Rather than do the
same and became a global leader in renewable energy, President Trump is suppressing the
release of scientific information on climate change and embracing the leading energy
source of the 19th century coal.

Kennedy also honored the best in America by bringing artists like Pablo Casals, Igor
Stravinsky and Marian Anderson along with Nobel Prize winners to the White House.
President Trump has brought Ted Nugent, Kid Rock and Sarah Palin.

Because Kennedy so eloquently stood for and communicated American ideals, he remains
loved todayand there are children, streets and memorials to him across the globe. In
contrast, Donald Trump stands only for his own enrichment and, to date, the only thing
someone else has named in his honor is toilet paper in Mexico.

It goes without saying that Donald Trump is no Jack Kennedy, sadly he is not even a
George W. Bush. As we rightfully celebrate President Kennedys centennial it is also
evidentthat Trump is neither Kennedy nor a Reaganesque Great Communicator but rather
is the Great Pretender.

After only five months, it is evident that his Presidency is and will be a failure that will
only diminish American greatness. The only question now is how and when this ignoble
disaster comes to an end.

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