The nurturing of JFK

As President Obama struggles to find his political footing, it is hard to avoid the suspicion that at least some of his woes may be rooted in a historical Democratic Party presidential divide. On the one side are what might be called loners; on the other, dynasts. The loners – Woodrow Wilson and Jimmy Carter – were brilliant professorial types who campaigned as moralistic, independent reformers and came to grief. By contrast, the members of family dynasties – Franklin D Roosevelt and John F Kennedy – were intimately familiar with rivalries and power politics long before they entered the Oval Office.

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