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The Camelot myth crumbled long ago under the strain of molls, mob money, election fraud, and foreign adventurism, and it is precisely this sordid mix--sex, glamour, power--that accounts for much of Kennedy's enduring appeal.
Quite a few supply-siders have created for themselves a wonderful alternative intellectual history in which John Maynard Keynes was a fraud, Paul Samuelson and even Milton Friedman are fools, and the true line of deep economic thought runs from Adam Smith through obscure turn-of-the-century Austrians straight to them.
If accepting a faithless husband was her price of power, as Margaret Talbot recently argued in the New Republic , she would be his accomplice, not only in a fraud on the public but also, perhaps, in what most people would recognize as sexual harassment.
The failure of the directly elected European Parliament to pass a censure motion against the European Commission (the unelected executive body of the European Union) over allegations of fraud and mismanagement was condemned as a "surrender" in another Daily Telegraph editorial Friday.
In a further feature on The Malaysian Affair (March 13, 1994), the allegation was repeated and the article further suggested that he might have had a corrupt connection with a $600m banking fraud in Hong Kong, the death of a bank auditor and the false imprisonment of a Malaysian businessman as part of a cover-up.