His memoir features a child named Tommy Nothing Fancy who suffers from and dies of a seizure disorder. Quite the coincidence, don't you think?

Similar to other Paleogene hyperthermals the negative δ 13 C excursion might be attributed to the addition of huge amounts of 13 C depleted carbon to ocean and atmosphere.

For example, during his entire time in office (but especially after the Bay of Pigs debacle in 1961), Kennedy and the CIA were at sword’s point. Kennedy didn’t trust the CIA as far as he could throw Allen Dulles […] and the spooks out at Langley thought the president was callow and not up to the job of being butch with the Soviet Union and Fidel Castro.

This led to a great deal of straightening and culverting, which in turn led to a massive loss of biodiversity.