It is quite natural to gloss over the real or imagined failing of rivals, enemies, and friends when they pass away. J. Edgar Hoover, for example, viciously attacked Martin Luther King, Jr. during his lifetime for supposed philandering and consorting with communists, but Hoover and his followers had nothing but praise for King after his assassina tion. In turn, it was Hoover himself who came in for criticism after death for manipulating congressmen and for a homosexual lifestyle. In the case of JFK, sexual indiscretions weren’t made public until after his death. They were then essentially swept under the rug. Today,