January 2011
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Could a Kennedy return to Washington?
For the first time in 64 years, no member of the Kennedy family holds a federal office, but there is speculation about the possibility that this could change in 2012. Edward M. Kennedy, Jr., who lives is Branford, has been mentioned as a potential candidate for the US Senate race in Connecticut now that Sen. Joe Lieberman won’t run in 2012, reports the Boston Herald. The potential...
Funeral of Sargent Shriver
Dr. William Kennedy Smith arriving with his fiancé Anne Henry Former US congressman Joseph P. Kennedy II and his son (behind) Caroline Kennedy and first lady Michelle Obama Mark Shriver Bobby Shriver Maria William Smith, his fiancé and Ethel Kennedy
Remembering Sargent Shriver 1915-2011
Shriver Family. Young Sarge is on the left. 1940’s Marriage to Eunice Kennedy, 1953 1962, Sarge appointed as the 1st director of the Peace Corps by his brother-in-law, president Kennedy The Shriver Family, 1970’s: Sarge, Eunice, Robert, Maria, Tim, Mark and Anthony Ambassador in France: 1970’s Sarge and Eunice were the only Kennedy couple to grow old together
Kennedy poems II - Ulysses, by Alfred Tennyson -...
Robert F. Kennedy (1925-1968), whose father took home movies as footage for the family myth and whose brother spent hours choosing which photographs to release to the press, understood the practical necessities. But at times he drifted along in a dreamy reverie. From time to time he would think of the Ulysses of his favorite poem by Tennyson, which he often quoted in his slightly self-dramatizing...
Kennedy poems - I have a rendez vous with death,...
Alan Seeger (1888-1916) was a young, early 20th century U.S. poet, a contemporary of T.S. Eliot, although very different in poetic style. Seeger died at Belloy-en-Santerre on July 4, 1916 while serving in the French Foreign Legion. “I Have a Rendezvous with Death” was one of the favorite poems of President Kennedy (1917-1963) and he often asked his wife to recite it. I have a...
Rose, Jack and Tatiana - JFK inauguration 50th...
50 years ago the torch was passed to a new...
‘Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans—born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage—and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this Nation has always been committed, and to which we...
'One of the brightest lights of the greatest...
Robert Sargent Shriver, Jr. 1915-2011 Robert Sargent Shriver Jr. was born Nov. 9, 1915, in Westminster, Md. He attended Yale University and Yale Law School, receiving his law degree in 1941. Despite his early opposition to U.S. involvement in World War II, he enlisted in the Navy and served on warships and submarines throughout the conflict.
He rose to power by marrying a Kennedy, but Sargent...
My friend, my president
By Ben Bradlee, the longtime Washington Post editor, is a vice president at the newspaper and former Washington bureau chief of NEWSWEEK.
Jack Kennedy was many things when he took the oath of office on Jan. 20, 1961: a glamorous figure, the youngest man ever elected to the office, the first Catholic president. He was also my friend.
He looked to me like a breath of fresh air, with his Hollywood...
A rising star
A confident Joseph P. Kennedy III burst onto the Bay State’s political scene yesterday as the “new Kennedy” — demanding an end to political vitriol on the 50th anniversary of the historic “City on a Hill” speech by his great-uncle, the late President John F. Kennedy. “Ladies and gentlemen, something happened last weekend. It is time for a change. For too long, the rhetoric from Washington has...
The Kennedy Brothers
A letter from Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (1954) is President of the Waterkeeper Alliance and Professor at Pace University Tucson: Time for another examination of conscience On November 22, 1963, Mummy picked me up early from Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C. Driving home to Hickory Hill in northern Virginia, I noticed that all the District flags were at half staff. Mummy told us that a bad man had shot...
“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie — deliberate, contrived...”
– Jack Kennedy
John F. Kennedy speech - We choose to go the moon
On a very hot late summer’s day in 1962, President Kennedy visited Rice University in Houston, Texas, and gave this speech outdoors in the football stadium. The President spoke in philosophical terms about the need to solve the mysteries of space, reaffirmed America’s commitment to landing a man on the moon before the end of the 1960s and also defended the enormous expense of the space...
Style icon Carolyn Bessette Kennedy
In her brief moment of fame, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy (1966-1999) spurned the limelight while making her mark as the most elegant woman in America. Even Carolyn Bessette herself could never have expected to become an icon after three brief years in the public eye. Yet her death in the summer of ‘99 - sudden, tragic and untimely - as all iconic deaths are - has propelled her into the...
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America's Queen
‘From the first day of his life, John seemed to belong not only to our family, but to the American family. The whole world knew his name before he did. A famous photograph showed John racing across the lawn as his father landed in the White House helicopter and swept up John in his arms. When my brother saw that photo, he exclaimed, “Every mother in the United States is saying,...
“I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge,...”
– John F. Kennedy about his cabinet, also known as ’the best and the brightest’
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Last Kennedy leaves Washington
Sixty-four years have gone by since the first Kennedy was elected to Congress. Fifty years ago John Fitzgerald Kennedy became president. This January the Camelot Era in Washington will come to an end when the last member of the Kennedys elected to national office stands down. The departure of Patrick Kennedy, Congressman for Rhode Island, will leave the capital without a Kennedy for the first...
The death of Michael Kennedy - 12/31/1997
Michael Kennedy was killed in the afternoon of December 31, 1997 in a skiing accident at the posh Colorado ski resort of Aspen.
He was the second of Robert and Ethel Kennedy’s 11 children to die tragically. His brother David died in 1984 of a drug overdose, and other family members have been victims of what some have called a family curse.
Kennedy, whose alleged affair with a family...