#kennedy

Even though Jack Kennedy and I were about the same age and lived in the same neighborhood and attended the same elementary school, our paths seldom crossed during the years he lived in Brookline. I'm sure that in time, I would have gotten to know him better if he hadn't moved away. ↗

— Mike Wallace

#age #attended #away #better #crossed

Jack Kennedy was one year older than I was, and we attended the same neighborhood school. ↗

— Mike Wallace

#i #jack #jack kennedy #kennedy #neighborhood

The traditional practice is that the justices don't ask the attorney general any questions, so as not to embarrass him. But Bobby Kennedy had let them know that he didn't mind if they asked him questions and they did. ↗

— Harold H. Greene

#ask #asked #attorney #attorney general #bobby

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

#between #biggest #biggest difference #concerned #difference

Which I would've done 'cause I volunteered for the draft which meant that I only had to do two years. But when the Cubans had missiles in the Canal and Kennedy made the extension, I was one of the ones who had enough time to be extended. ↗

— Edwin Starr

#cause #cubans #done #draft #enough

I was a sort of son to Ike, and it was the other way round with Kennedy. ↗

— Harold MacMillan

#ike #kennedy #other #round #son

I told them how excited I would be to go into space and how thrilled I was when Alan Shepard made his historic flight, and when John Kennedy announced on the news that the men had landed safely on the moon, and how jealous I was of those men. ↗

— Christa McAuliffe

#announced #excited #flight #go #had

Of all my false identities, the strategies in my campaign to be accepted, being a sworn Republican is the hardest to explain. In my later political life, I can only be described as a Kennedy Democrat, eager to pursue equitable treatment for the least fortunate. ↗

— James McGreevey

#being #campaign #democrat #described #eager

The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out. ↗

— Lance Morrow

#afternoon #american #american culture #bats #began

Kennedy said that if we had nuclear war we'd kill 300 million people in the first hour. McNamara, who is a good businessman and likes to save, says it would be only 200 million. ↗

— Norman Thomas

#first #good #had #hour #kennedy