Madness, Hubris, Incredible Conceit--

But just suppose that the Kennedy brothers, John and Robert, having gained the presidency (as in fact they did) through a series of preposterous promises and commitments to organized crime, political machines and corporate interests that they had no intention of keeping or honoring, and imagining that they could, at least in the short term, prevent themselves from being murdered by seizing control of the Justice Department--Might they, through certain key, pre-emptive assassinations (of Lyndon Johnson, J. Edgar Hoover, the Dulles bothers, etc.), have kept a grip on power that would have abolished the military draft in peacetime, ended the Cold War, and prevented the creation of the Evil Empire of Prison State America?  Ah, if only!