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rurallib

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4. some personal memories

Reply to snot (Original post)

Wed Sep 18, 2013, 11:43 AM

Sep 2013

if that is OK - I was @12 when he was inaugurated. I used to love to come home on I think Thursday afternoons and watch his WEEKLY press conferences. They were fun and lively.
I remember one where he was being lit up by some woman reporter for not keeping his promises to women. "Did he (kennedy) feel he was doing enough?" "Apparently not" he answered and the press roared.

"I am the man who accompanied Jackie Kennedy" he said at his first presser in Paris on a foreign trip where Jackie was getting all the attention.

Got to go, but I have lots of memories of his quips and subtle jokes. Aster Eisenhower it felt like we could finally breathe.

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