With Nixon before the hippies, would we see a war on drugs? Would we see hippies?
. I'll assume the JFK-as-dumb comment was a poor attempt at humour.
Probably not, and rightly so. JFK wasn't bright.
Bright enough to look like he´s bright its enough to be PoTUS IMHO. Damn it wasn´t intended, but it looks like a tongue-twister.
As almost every single one to this day ... I don´t think it was specially dumb, in fact It was one of the less dumb persons to end in that post ...