In 2003 forty year after (president Kennedy’s) death , when America’s reputation abroad was in tatters, I was in Rome for speaking engagement, and invite by a local foreign policy group to give an address. “On what subject?” I asked the chairman. “Tell us about the good America, when Kennedy was president,” he said. I did. I talked about an America admired for its values, respected for its success; an America that led by listening, worked with the rest of the world, and respected international law; an amerce that stood for peace, not one that started wars.