#kennedy

Don't pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. ↗

— JFK

#jfk #kennedy #life #lives #pray

That wasn’t about you personally. It’s...I don’t hang out much alone. I mean—I don’t often hang out with guys. Alone. They usually make me... uh....” Panic, turn bright red, feel dizzy, want to vomit, stutter, stop breathing, drop things, die from the inside out, and let’s not forget head-butt the people I truly love until they require hospitalization. ↗

— Anne Eliot

#unmaking-hunter-kennedy #love

Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it. ↗

— Robert F. Kennedy

#inspirational #kennedy #rfk #robert-francis-kennedy #inspirational

Kennedy did not have to run the risk of having his ideas and his words shortened and adulterated by a correspondent. This was the television era, not only in campaigning, but in holding the presidency. ↗

— Hugh Sidey

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President Kennedy was willing to go to war. He was not a coward. The man had been in war and so had Ken O'Donnell. He was ready to protect this nation, but he was not ready for a military solution just because it was being rammed down his throat. ↗

— Kevin Costner

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The grand jury, composed of 12 eminent New Orleans citizens, heard our evidence and indicted the defendant for participation in a conspiracy to assassinate John Kennedy. ↗

— Jim Garrison

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Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

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The biggest difference between Kennedy and Nixon, as far as the press is concerned, is simply this: Jack Kennedy really liked newspaper people and he really enjoyed sparring with journalists. ↗

— Ben Bradlee

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Ted Kennedy is the only person alive who might know more than we do about Chappaquiddick, and he may not. ↗

— Adam Clymer

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I have absolutely no intention of marrying Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. ↗

— Paul Getty

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