Madam, - Your recent DVD of JFK's 1963 visit to Ireland might have been given a stark relevance to the present had the editors added a brief prophetic lesson from his inaugural address as US president in January 1961, when he said the following:
"Remember that, in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside."
The same speech contained the line: "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." - Yours, etc,