Word: daves
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...boys at the Horseshoe Tavern in Boston's proud but impoverished Charlestown district can hardly get over it. Every time they pick up their newspaper-or so it seems-there is their own Dave Powers, sitting as big as life next to the President of the U.S. David Francis Powers, the boy from Charlestown, is officially listed as a White House staff assistant-but that is only half the story. In the informal, easygoing atmosphere of the Kennedy Administration, the elfish, ebullient Powers, 49, plays a unique role as John Kennedy's constant companion, morale builder, tension lifter...
Powers is the White House receptionist, with the serious duty of getting visitors to the President on time and in good humor. From his private office in the White House's East Wing or from the big reception desk in the West Wing, Dave may sally forth to relax the President with a political story or a new joke (Kennedy sometimes complains that there are not enough new ones) or conduct a White House tour for VIPs. He frequently dines with the President, has accompanied him overseas, swims with him almost daily in the White House swimming pool, where...
...almost everyone in Charlestown by his first name, soon was leading Kennedy up and down the back steps of the neighborhood's countless three-deckers, popping into kitchens where neighbors pledged their vote and solicitously insisted on feeding the skinny young candidate. Kennedy won, and has never forgotten Dave's help. In every Kennedy campaign since 1952, Powers has taken leave from his job with the Massachusetts state housing board to give a helping hand, traveled 72,657 miles during the 1960 campaign...
...Kennedy to the All-Star game, was readily identifiable in the pictures that showed a foul ball landing near the presidential box. Reporting a game some months ago, a newspaper erroneously said that Powers had ducked a foul. The gang at the Horseshoe Tavern indignantly formed a "We Know Dave Powers Didn't Flinch Club," signed up 200 members...
Miss Universe Beauty Pageant (CBS, 10-11:30 p.m.). With Dave Garroway as anchor man, Arlene Francis as hostess, and someone pretty as winner...