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When I was a kid, we always went to movies, and I loved the experience. My dad liked the popcorn at movies better than anyplace else. I still get a fond feeling when I smell popcorn--and not the air-popped kind but the real McCoy. It's a fairly fattening proposition, I might...
...then my dad looked at me: “Yeah, good idea. Bow out and leave the decisions to the complacent conservatives...
...just seemed bleak. And I sensed the foreboding unwelcomeness to it." One day he went so far as to ride his bike through Checkpoint Charlie and into East Berlin to look around and visit Hitler's bunker. When Richard realized where his son had gone, John recalls, "My dad was not thrilled. He explained to me that I could have [caused] an international incident. I think he took my passport. I think I got grounded--passport grounded...
...There isn't a son in the world who hasn't had an issue with his father," John says. Barbiero observes, "John's dad was someone he was always trying to prove himself to." While John's mother struck Barbiero as a "terrific, warm person," he is blunt about Richard Kerry. "I didn't like his father," Barbiero says. "He was dismissive of John. We'd go out to dinner, and John would be saying something, and his father would cut him off. I didn't feel he gave John much respect." Richard Kerry was suave but not warm, articulate...
...LIVING UP TO DAD...