Take him up, carry him to burial, a king lured to a shameful death by the anger of a god.
Euripides, The Bacchae
In spring 1947, two first-term congressmen were invited by a local civic group in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, to debate the Taft-Hartley law. This was the first meeting of two politicians irrevocably linked in American history--John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon. These two men, later the thirty-fifth and the thirty-seventh presidents, respectively, were ...