Chris Cillizza
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400 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 11 Apr
Chris Cillizza’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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pales in comparison to what Eisenhower did.
So he comes from...
a very well-known and very wealthy family.
Obviously, his father, Joe Kennedy, is very much in the news.
And he had been an ambassador.
And there had been a lot of criticism all throughout JFK's career, from the House to the Senate and then running for president, that he was just like a rich kid of a daddy's boy, and that he didn't really understand how regular people live.
Now, it was played by more
regular it is golf is played by more quote-unquote average people now back then it was very much a like country club sport that there were a few pockets where it wasn't but broadly it was and he simply did not want to give his political opponents uh an easy image of him swinging in a golf club that would make him look
Brahman, out of touch.
And he thought football, you know, very much more of sort of a working man's game.
He thought that that painted him in a better light.
You think of him throwing the football, right?
I mean, that's what everybody thinks of him.
And that's what the Kennedys wanted you to think.
He refused to ever... I talked to a pro up in Cape Cod that Kennedy would use, and he said Kennedy never wanted to...
He would just show up.
He wouldn't call.
He didn't want the possibility that anyone would see him up there.
Because, again, this is the whole thing.
Sports is a stand-in.
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