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Most of the crape-draped photographs of Kennedy had been removed from the store windows, but the spate of Kennedy renamings went on, although not without some cautionary comments. "If we continue," warned Maryland Republican Representative Rogers Morton, "all he will be remembered for was that he was assassinated...
...Jewish nation in Exodus, Washington politics in Advise and Consent, race in Porgy and Bess. Now he catechizes all the hopes, strains, doubts and pains of Roman Catholicism in one big, bad movie that millions will flock to see. Cardinal is the story, based on the late Henry Morton Robinson's 1950 bestseller, of a poor boy from Boston who rises through the priesthood to become a prince of the Roman Catholic Church. It is sure-sell religiosity...
...shot John Kennedy was a "stranger to the American heritage," said Morton, and his "mind had been warped by an alien violence, not by a native condition...
...mourn the terrible event," cried Morton, "but let us not mourn for the American soul-for that soul is stout and lighted by truth and faith. Let the blame be on him who actually committed the crime . . . What happened was not America's fault. Only the sober realization of that can make our mourning meaningful and not torture it with a guilt that is undeserved and unworthy of the cause in which our Presidents live and for which sometimes they tragically...
...Reject It." As Morton sat down, Tennessee Democrat Albert Gore sprang to his feet, praised him for his speech, then seconded it in powerful words: "I accept no blame for what this demented man did. I feel no sense of personal guilt. He is the one who had become a fanatic. Why should all America be blamed for the actions of one fanatic? True, our society has many problems and imperfections, much stress and distress, hate, fear and disappointment; but it is an injustice to our millions of people of good will, even the teeming thousands of hospitable, cheering people...