Word: daves
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...DIED. DAVE POWERS, 85, constant companion and amiable aide-de-camp of John F. Kennedy; in Arlington, Mass. Powers joined congressional candidate Kennedy in 1946 and stayed with him all the way to the White House and beyond. Powers was riding in the presidential motorcade the day Kennedy was shot, and he accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy on the flight of Air Force One back to Washington. At one point she turned to him and said, "Oh, Dave, you've been with him all these years. What will you do now?" The answer was to continue to serve, as a companion...
...Dave Pietramala, the first-year head coach at Cornell (3-2, 2-0), is a legend in the lacrosse world...
...Consider Dave Powers, President Kennedy's longtime assistant, personal valet and friend, who died last weekend at the age of 85. Powers epitomized loyalty, helping to preserve the Kennedy legacy as curator of the JFK Library in Dorchester. Kennedy credited Powers with making his career in politics, for it was the older Powers who helped the still-ailing young candidate for the 10th Congressional seat up creaky stairs in Cambridge and Charlestown tenements to meet voters. Powers was behind the scenes for every campaign thereafter. In turn, Powers credited Kennedy with taking a poor newsboy and bringing him into politics...
These three portraits of differing kinds of loyalty are certainly colored by the reporter's attachment to the person. I had the good fortune to meet Dave Powers and admired his unswerving loyalty, and I once met George Stephanopoulos and, having admired his intelligence and commitment, am reluctant to label him a traitor for being willing to ask the same important questions in public that he used to ask of the President in private. But whatever the case, these three individuals highlight for us the different circumstances of loyalty. I would argue that instead of loyalty giving way to principle...
...thrall to his own libidinal fumblings, Commander in Chief of the banana republic. Maybe the Gennifer Flowers episode of Clinton's '92 campaign gave Hollywood the psychic go-ahead it needed to make an assault on old pieties about the presidency. The very next year the movies gave us Dave. That was the one in which Kevin Kline is an amiable presidential look-alike who fills in when the real President (named Bill!) is sidelined by a stroke that he suffered while (hmmm...) fooling around in a Washington hotel with (uh oh!) a White House aide. Two years later...