Allegations

Ellen Goodman (Commentary, Jan. 16) asks rhetorically, what if President Kennedy had had to face Judith Campbell Exner’s allegations publicly while in office? The answer is that the world would be a better place if we’d lost our illusions about the political class sooner than we did. Had he been personally discredited and thus politically neutralized, the Vietnam War might well not have happened.

Goodman is wasting her energies anyway, trying to salvage the feminists’ credibility after their hypocrisy over Paula Jones. She’s too late. It’s gone.

PETER REIDY

El Segundo