For those who don't remember, it wasn't perfect, the missile crisis was a bitch, but there was a feeling the fellow was rising to the challenge - and history shows he was growing. But, as a young fellow, the presidents physical health challenge - his call to us to be phisically fit - not his back problems, his dedication to old values of liberity, made it feel like promicing times... not like the present. And then it all came crashing down.
Larry