I'm quite in agreement with you regarding the import of Kennedy's knowledge and statements. I cannot vouchsafe Kennedy himself, and remain resistant to becoming invested in personages. Too many say all kinds of reasonable things in order to gain power, but when invested with power do things quite opposite to their campaign rhetoric. It's actually impossible to find examples of successful candidates that did not do exactly that.

I'm not intending to malign Kennedy, and my suspicion of persons does not somehow make suspicious statements of fact I can verify as true they make. Facts are facts, and people are people, and I do not conflate the two. Lots of people do. I keep them separate.

I strongly support many statements Reagan made, but vilify Reagan who utterly contradicted his rhetoric with his wielding of power. I'm not accusing Kennedy of doing that, because he hasn't attained to office where he could.

The 100% probability of candidates doing so in history leaves me without confidence he wouldn't.

I absolutely oppose the concept of the 'Big Man' that democratic elections promulgate.

Please accept my apologies if I have stated this in a way that offends you. As I said, I have neither desire nor intent to malign Kennedy, and have sought to simply provide the example of history to reveal why I cannot have confidence that the words of a public figure would ever underlie their actual policy.