President Kennedy was the greatest man I ever met, and the best friend I ever had.
Ted Kennedy says that our policy in Iraq is adrift. Hmmm. Maybe like a car adrift in the water after its has gone over a bridge?
I read every biography [of Jackie Kennedy] I could get my hands on.
We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California.
I grew up in the '50s and '60s when Jack Kennedy was president. We would watch him on television. And our teachers always talked about the good things public servants could do. I thought maybe that's something I should do. So when I got out of law school, my wife, Jane, and I became precinct captains.
I was singing a lot of waltzes. And I was with Jerry Kennedy, my producer, and he was playing me some songs, and he said, hey, I want to play you this song that I'm going to get Jackie Ward to record.
So, I think that Marilyn, what she gave the world, and in many ways Kennedy too, was that they had dreams and they didn't allow anybody to take away their dreams.
Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House
The Kennedys formed a Kennedy party.
But wherever we are, we must all, in our daily lives, live up to the age-old faith that peace and freedom walk together. In too many of our cities today, the peace is not secure because freedom is incomplete. " (John F. Kennedy, June 10, 1963, American University speech)
Certainly I think the election of John Kennedy and all he stood for was one that really was an inspiration.
The White House used to belong to the American people. At least that's what I learned from history books and from covering every president starting with John F. Kennedy.
If you're a Kennedy and you go to Italy or you go to Argentina, you're treated as royalty. And in the United States, we're endlessly fascinated by the family.
I don't want a headline saying 'Kennedy suggests this or implies that. '
I was next to Bobby [Kennedy] when he was shot. It was hideous. Part of me wanted to crawl away. I couldn't. . . I still wake up in the night and think about it. I even remember the f-stop. It was 1. 4.
As much as I liked and admired the various members of the Kennedy family, my first loyalty was to Jackie.
Both Kennedy and Obama exuded a dash of glamour in their roles as commander-in-chief and became the darlings of Hollywood. As president, each brought to the White House a fashionable and accomplished First Lady, two adorable young children and scene-stealing pets.
It's impossible to write about the Kennedy assassination and its aftermath without taking note of twenty-five years of paranoia which has collected around that event.
I guess my claim to fame is I've now gaveled Ted Kennedy to order twice.
History must judge John F. Kennedy not only by what he was able to accomplish in a thousand days, but also by what he inspired all of us to volunteer to do for our country.