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Jfk’s Management

March 2023
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Do you think it was necessary for the Forbes family view to be so plainly exhibited on the cover? Why didn’t you run a “Dangerous Precedent” article upon the election of George Bush in 1988? You could have had Ronald Reagan nodding off on the cover and the article could have warned Mr. Bush of the pitfalls of running the country with the aid of an astrologer.

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