How much he was shaped by being in the hospital so much as a kid. Because he was … - Chris Matthews

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How much he was shaped by being in the hospital so much as a kid. Because he was sick, he was a reader, and because he was a reader, [John F. ] Kennedy had heroes. Because he had heroes, he went into politics. (Kennedy liked Sir Walter Scott, King Arthur's knights, and biographies of political leaders. ) If he hadn't been sick, he might have been like everybody else in the family, a jock.

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