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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...apple-pie easy as it looks. Extol "a million acts of kindness" (or a thousand points of light), and you can end up sounding like a mush head, too grateful for white-haired docents and aging hippies adopting highways. Volunteerism hasn't been cool since Camelot, and even then the Peace Corps was ridiculed by conservatives as Kennedy's Kiddie Corps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All Together Now | 2/11/2002 | See Source »

...brother Robert Kennedy had not been killed, he would have become the 37th President of the U.S. and would have brought about a different perspective on U.S. relations with other world powers. Jacqueline Kennedy was an American princess and queen who had both American and European elegance. Camelot lives and is immortal! KIICHI OBARA Tokyo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 3, 2001 | 9/3/2001 | See Source »

...American royalty without being swallowed by them. Kathleen "lobbied the hell out of us" to nail down a prime-time speaking slot at last year's Democratic National Convention, says a former Gore-campaign official. (But she lost the high-profile gig to her cousin Caroline, the princess of Camelot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Kennedys | 8/13/2001 | See Source »

...Jackie and her husband hang from the walls as backdrop for the actual gowns and dresses, poised silently on mannequins and bathed in soft pastels. It is as though Guinevere's gown and tiara suddenly appeared on the mezzanine of the Met, tangible proof that the fairy tale--Camelot--was real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Myth Machine | 8/13/2001 | See Source »

...shows, was a genuinely remarkable woman possessed of two rare qualities: flawless taste and nearly limitless wealth. After the assassination, she used both to promulgate the fairy tale. Anyone who searches for the Kennedy myth machine will probably spot Mrs. Kennedy at its center. It was she who invoked Camelot as the symbol of her husband's Administration in the days after his death. In her grief, she summoned a worshipful journalist, Theodore White, and told him that her husband loved the musical Camelot, by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, and would play the title song as he fell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Myth Machine | 8/13/2001 | See Source »

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