December 2011
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What Remains - Happy New Year
December 1998 Over dinner we talk about trips. ”Lets go to Cuba next year,” John says. ”I’ll fly us.” ”I’ll risk commercial,” Anthony says, not missing a beat. John moves past it. ”We”ll go in November; it’s the best time of the year.” Out loud we imagine sunbathing on the white sand, strolling along the Malecon, by the sea,...
Dec 31st
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Dec 31st
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Dec 30th
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Love!
1967: Robert F. Kennedy shows his youngest son: Douglas.
Dec 30th
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Dec 29th
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Dec 28th
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“We were to try harder than anyone else. We might not be the best, and none of us...”
– Robert Kennedy
Dec 28th
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“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth”
– John F. Kennedy
Dec 28th
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Dec 26th
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Dec 26th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 23rd
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“I have been through a lot and have suffered a great deal. But I have had lots of...”
– Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Dec 23rd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 21st
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Dec 20th
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“He was a fighting prince never free from pain, never far from trouble, never...”
– Chris Matthews about JFK in Jack Kennedy: Elusive hero
Dec 18th
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Dec 16th
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Kerry Kennedy on Morning Joe →
Dec 15th
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Dec 14th
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Dec 14th
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“The message of Christmas- the message of peace and good will towards all men-...”
– President Kennedy, 1962 
Dec 13th
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“History made him, this lonely, sick boy. His mother never loved him. History...”
– Jacqueline Kennedy, November 29, 1963, from notes scribbled by Theodore H. White
Dec 13th
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Dec 11th
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Dec 9th
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Dec 9th
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“In every presidential election since 1968, we continue to listen for echoes of...”
– John Seigenthaler
Dec 9th
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“Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to...”
– Robert F. Kennedy
Dec 9th
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“I suggest that President Kennedy’s legacy remains relevant today not because of...”
– John Kennedy Schlossberg
Dec 9th
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Dec 7th
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Dec 7th
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Dec 7th
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Patrick Kennedy and wife expecting
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The wife of former U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy of Rhode Island is expecting a baby. The son of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts tells The Associated Press that he and wife Amy Pettitgout (PET’-ah-goo) are thrilled with the prospect of expanding their family. He says the baby is due in the spring, and they’re waiting to find out the sex. The couple married over the...
Dec 7th
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Dec 5th
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JFK's grandson defends Kennedy Legacy in 'The New...
To the Editor As a young man inspired by politics and history who has spent time studying the Kennedy administration, I take issue with Ross Douthat’s Nov. 27 column, The Enduring Cult of Kennedy about President John F. Kennedy, my grandfather. Mr. Douthat suggests that President Kennedy was a “near disaster.” He criticizes Kennedy on civil rights; Kennedy was the first president to deem civil...
Dec 5th
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Dec 4th
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Meet the Shriver men
Robert Sargent ‘Bobby’ Shriver III (April 28, 1954) is an American activist, attorney, journalist and Democratic member of the Santa Monica City Council in Santa Monica, California. Timothy Perry ‘Tim’ Shriver (August 29, 1959) is Chairman and CEO of Special Olympics. Mark Kennedy Shriver (February 17, 1964) is a United States Democratic Party politician who served as a...
Dec 3rd
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