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Article: The misanthrope's corner. (reflections on the Kennedy family)(Column)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- February 9, 1998
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Miss King is the author of The Florence King Reader and other books.
IWISH it were 1959 again. Not for the creamy complexion and svelte figure I had then, but because it was the last year of my pre-Kennedy life, before I had ever heard of them.
Nobody I knew had ever heard of them. Old Joe's stormy prewar ambassadorship rang a faint bell with my parents but they didn't make the connection until the 1960 campaign. Ethnic Northerners remembered JFK with pride from the Veepstakes of 1956, but we were not, to put it mildly, ethnic Northerners. We didn't even know he was Irish; my English father thought of the name as Scottish thanks to an old British military ...