let me amend this, Obama was a middling president but Kennedy sucked ass. broke ground on the neoliberal turn, got nothing of substance done, almost blew up the planet with his insane pursuit of Casto, and a MAJOR sex pest to boot
In the 1950s it was very common for private citizens to offer contracts to blue-chip baseball prospects, and “nuclear apocalypse” clauses were all the rage as sweeteners.