Remembering JFK

Nowhere in the Houston Chronicle Sunday edition of Nov. 22 could I find mention of the anniversary of the terrible event in 1963 — the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The tragic loss of the person I consider to have been the nation’s last great Democratic president placed into office a successor who brought drastic change in our Southeast Asia military policy and the needless deaths of 58,000 American military lives. Certainly anyone who was on active military duty on that sad date has it indelibly embedded in their memories.

C.E. Sylvester, Houston

Correction: A column published Nov. 24 mischaracterized the relationship between President Bill Clinton and Warren Christopher, his first secretary of state. Christopher was a foreign policy veteran raised in California, not a longtime friend of the president’s from Arkansas.