Word: fatherness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...legal terms, the chief was almost certainly right. Politically and morally, he could scarcely have been farther from the truth. Speaking to the nation before a bookcase in his father's house in Hyannisport?his own house had insufficient electrical capacity for TV equipment?Kennedy sought not only to fill some of the gaping holes in his earlier story, but, in an appeal slightly reminiscent of Richard Nixon's famous Checkers speech in 1952,* to salvage his political future as well. The appearance did, in fact, answer a few of the questions, but left the most serious ones unanswered...
...happens to me, Bobby will take my place, and if Bobby goes, we have Teddy coming along." There were also family responsibilities. Joe Kennedy, the patriarch of the clan, was partially paralyzed and only partly conscious of what happened around him, and Ted was now in effect acting as father to 15 children, three of his own, ten of his brother Robert's (an eleventh child was born later) and, until Jacqueline Kennedy's remarriage, two of John...
...were uncounted numbers of psychopaths who might like to claim the murder of the last of the Kennedy brothers. Once he reportedly said: "I know that I'm going to get my ass shot off one day, and I don't want to." He talked privately of how his father had watched the Eisenhower funeral on television and of how the former ambassador had thought that his youngest son was being buried. Ted, who had always been the blithest brother, and the least intellectual or introspective, could now be morose at times...
...only child, Mary Jo was born in Plymouth, Pa., where her father was an insurance salesman. In 1962, she graduated with a degree in business from New Jersey's Caldwell College for Women, a small liberal arts school operated by the Sisters of St. Dominic. She immediately sought social and political commitments, starting with a job teaching black children in a civil rights project in Montgomery...
...fled the throne in 1931, does not represent a restoration of the old dynasty. On the contrary, he argues, Juan Carlos represents the start of a new dynasty that owes nothing to the past. From a legal standpoint, Franco's ploy blocks the claims of Juan Carlos' father Don Juan, (who now lives in Portugal) and those of other pretenders to the throne, since Franco has not restored the old line but started a new one, whose first-born sons will from now on become the Kings of Spain...