Courage

I was looking through some notes I took a few years back in the heyday of my JFK readings. Don’t recall the book I took it from, or even if it’s a verbatim quote, but I wrote:

In 1952 JFK defeated Henry Cabot Lodge to become MA junior senator.

In 1954 he underwent painful back surgery; during convalescence he wrote Profiles in Courage.

During this time he was able to avoid taking a stand one way or another on Joseph McCarthy’s censure.

Does anyone besides me find that an absolutely delightful oxymoron?