17. Kennedy Was Obsessed With James Bond... So Wrote His Own Spy Book In Which LBJ Attempted A Coup D'Etat
JFK famously named From Russia With Love - the James Bond classic - among his 10 favourite books, and he was known to be obsessed with spy novels. Fancying himself as an author, the President even tried to write his own secret-agent story, bizarrely placing his Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson as the architect of an attempted coup d-etat in America.
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