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Adenoid_Hynkel

(14,093 posts) Sat Nov 23, 2013, 03:16 AM Nov 2013

JFK with a young Nancy Pelosi

at his inaugural ball in 1961. She was 20.

details here:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1349503/Nancy-Pelosi-I-partied-President-John-F-Kennedy-heres-picture-prove-it.html

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JFK with a young Nancy Pelosi (Original Post) Adenoid_Hynkel Nov 2013 OP

Very cool! Cali_Democrat Nov 2013 #1

Sweet! ReRe Nov 2013 #2

i hope so! nt IronLionZion Nov 2013 #6

Sweet. I remember those dresses with bouffant petticoats No Vested Interest Nov 2013 #3

+ 1 nt arely staircase Nov 2013 #4

That can't be the inaugural ball--he wore white tie. MADem Nov 2013 #5

Thanks for sharing. lonestarnot Nov 2013 #7

Thanks for sharing. lonestarnot Nov 2013 #8

Cool little piece of history treestar Nov 2013 #9

Cali_Democrat

(30,439 posts)

1. Very cool!

Reply to Adenoid_Hynkel (Original post)

Sat Nov 23, 2013, 03:22 AM

Nov 2013

ReRe

(12,189 posts)

2. Sweet!

Reply to Adenoid_Hynkel (Original post)

Sat Nov 23, 2013, 03:58 AM

Nov 2013

She just might be Speaker of the House again in 2015.

2014!

IronLionZion

(51,551 posts)

6. i hope so! nt

Reply to ReRe (Reply #2)

Sat Nov 23, 2013, 09:17 AM

Nov 2013

No Vested Interest

(5,300 posts)

3. Sweet. I remember those dresses with bouffant petticoats

Reply to Adenoid_Hynkel (Original post)

Sat Nov 23, 2013, 03:59 AM

Nov 2013

under the dress.

arely staircase

(12,482 posts)

4. + 1 nt

Reply to Adenoid_Hynkel (Original post)

Sat Nov 23, 2013, 04:00 AM

Nov 2013

MADem

(135,425 posts)

5. That can't be the inaugural ball--he wore white tie.

Reply to Adenoid_Hynkel (Original post)

Sat Nov 23, 2013, 06:18 AM

Nov 2013

That looks like one of the WH formal dinners--not a state dinner, but a formal dinner.

Here he is making the rounds on the night of his inauguration--note the full "soup-n-fish" outfit:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/John_F._Kennedy_Inaugural_Ball,_20_January_1961.jpg

I believe that was the "pre-Inaugural gala" which happened the NIGHT BEFORE he was sworn in, and the President-ELECT gave a brief speech at that thing, and he wore black tie at that one. Here is the speech he gave:

lonestarnot

(77,097 posts)

7. Thanks for sharing.

Reply to MADem (Reply #5)

Sat Nov 23, 2013, 10:30 AM

Nov 2013

lonestarnot

(77,097 posts)

8. Thanks for sharing.

Reply to Adenoid_Hynkel (Original post)

Sat Nov 23, 2013, 10:31 AM

Nov 2013

treestar

(82,383 posts)

9. Cool little piece of history

Reply to Adenoid_Hynkel (Original post)

Sat Nov 23, 2013, 10:56 AM

Nov 2013

Really neat. She must remember where she was on 11/22/63.

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