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Several months after his inauguration, in 1961, Jack Kennedy was relaxing at the family compound in Hyannis Port with his friend and distant in-law, Gore Vidal. "You know," Jack said, "I'm getting awfully tired of reading how my father bought me the election. I think of all the things I did—I was the one out there."

"Well," Vidal responded, "he certainly made a big contribution. What do you think drove him?"

Jack paused, looked out to sea for a moment and then said with finality, "Vanity."

Vanity. It was vanity and, of course, much more. There is no question Joe Kennedy loved his children, yet much of his energy as a father went into pushing them to heights he himself wished to reach. He had once entertained notions that he would run for president; in 1940, before Franklin Roosevelt announced his candidacy for a third term, Kennedy, then the ambassador to Great Britain, was often mentioned in the papers as one of the half-dozen men likely to win the Democratic nomination. Yet if Joe Kennedy was vain, he was also practical, and he came to realize there was no way America was ready to elect a Catholic president. That would have to wait for another generation.

From 1915 until 1944, his dynastic imperative was focused on his eldest son, Joe junior, who, like the heir to a throne, was raised from birth with the awareness that the kingdom was to be his, accepting his role and secure in it, shouldering the mantle without question.

Shaken as never before, Joe wrote to Jack's doctor: "During the darkest days I felt nothing else mattered except his recovery."

Jack, the second son, grew up in the shadow of his easier-to-"harness" older brother, unsure of his place in the family and seeking to create a unique niche for himself. Another major factor was to affect the future president's relationship with his father: from the age of two, Jack Kennedy was cursed with a series of illnesses, and it was his father who would come through for him d

President of the United States from 1961 to 1963

Several terms redirect here. For other uses, see John Kennedy (disambiguation), Jack Kennedy (disambiguation), JFK (disambiguation), and John F. Kennedy (disambiguation).

John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), also known as JFK, was the 35th president of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. He was the youngest person elected president at 43 years. Kennedy served at the height of the Cold War, and the majority of his foreign policy concerned relations with the Soviet Union and Cuba. A Democrat, Kennedy represented Massachusetts in both houses of the United States Congress prior to his presidency.

Born into the prominent Kennedy family in Brookline, Massachusetts, Kennedy graduated from Harvard

American author and diplomat (born 1957)

This article is about President John F. Kennedy's daughter. For her sister-in-law, see Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy.

Caroline Bouvier Kennedy (born November 27, 1957) is an American author, diplomat, and attorney who served as the United States ambassador to Australia from 2022 to 2024. Kennedy previously served in the Obama administration as the United States ambassador to Japan from 2013 to 2017. Most of Kennedy's professional life has been in literature, law, politics, education reform, and charity. She is a member of the Kennedy family and the only surviving child of US president John F. Kennedy and First LadyJacqueline Kennedy.

Born in New York City, Kennedy was two years old when her father won the 1960 presidential election and spent her early childhood years in the White House during his presidency. She was five years old when he was assassinated on November 22, 1963. The following year, she and her younger brother John F. Kennedy Jr. moved with their mother Jacqueline to the Upper East Side of Manhattan where Kennedy continued her education. Kennedy graduated from Radcliffe College of Harvard University, and later attended Columbia Law School where she earned a Juris Doctor degree in 1988. She passed the New York State bar exam the following year. Kennedy worked at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she met her future husband, designer Edwin Schlossberg. They have three children: Rose, Tatiana, and Jack.

Early in the primary race for the 2008 presidential election, Kennedy and her uncle, Ted Kennedy, endorsed Democratic candidate Barack Obama. She later stumped for him in Florida, Indiana, and Ohio, served as co-chair of his Vice Presidential Search Committee, and addressed the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver. After Obama selected United States senator Hillary Clinton to serve as secretary