JFK's Character

In terms of like who he was, what his character was like, I mean, that's something I've been grappling with for 30 years. And it's actually a really hard question because he's very charming and very likable if you were to know him personally, but the same time there's something about him that's very sort of private. He compartmentalized it between different groups of friends and family and so on. So he's definitely affected by his relationship with his parents. He's closer to his father than his mother in terms of private life. One of the big issues that historians have discussed with Kennedy is his character. In 1991, a historian Thomas Reeves wrote a book called