did wasack kennedy as i to understand it the true meaning of the word. inseparable asas a part of his life. he never surrendered to it. to the than he yielded charge of freedom's enemies during the most dangerous moments of the nuclear age. president kennedy understood that courage was not something to be gained at a poll, or located in a focus group. no advisor can spin it. no historian can backdate it. for in the age-old contest between popularity and principle, only those willing to are with their convictions deserving of posterity's approval. , i enteredury ago politics because of a big idea. rejecting the midwestern isolationism of my youth, i learned on a combat aircraft carrier in the pacific that leadership carries with it a very great price. a price measured in the 20th century by eternal vigilance against those who would put the soul itself in bondage. years course of almost 88 , i've seen more than my share of miracles. ofave witnessed the defeat nazi tyranny, the destruction of hateful walls that once divided freemen from the enslaved. at hom