Origin of 'No Jack Kennedy' Comment Disputed

Bob Shrum, in his new book, takes credit for the famous line delivered from Lloyd Bentsen's mouth to Dan Quayle: "Senator, I knew Jack Kennedy, and you're no Jack Kennedy." Plenty of folks disagree and claim the line was theirs. The truth about the lineage of the famous quote is hard to discern, especially now that Bentsen is gone. To paraphrase JFK himself, success has a thousand fathers; failure is an orphan — or did he say "bastard"?

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