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Throughout the week, in the White House and aboard the yacht Honey Fitz, the President of the U.S. and the Prime Minister of Great Britain talked earnestly. Their styles differed: John Kennedy spoke briskly, changing the subject whenever the conversation began to lag, while Harold Macmillan preferred a chattier, more leisurely pace. Their aims differed too: Kennedy was anxious to impress Macmillan with his ability to lead not only the U.S. but the free world; Macmillan was eager to convince Kennedy of Britain's value as an honest broker in the cold war. From time to time, aides issued...
...last hurrah for the late Boston politician John Francis Fitzgerald, Grandson John Fitzgerald Kennedy rechristened the 92-ft. presidential yacht Barbara Anne (named by Ike for his granddaughter) as the Honey Fitz...
...city. It was there, in the turn-of-the-century days of boisterous hurrahs and beer-barrel politics, that his two shanty Irish grandfathers ruled: Saloonkeeper Pat Kennedy, the leader of East Boston's First Ward, and a state representative and state senator to boot; John Francis ("Honey Fitz'') Fitzgerald, twice the mayor of Boston and a U.S. Congressman, the only man in town who could sing Sweet Adeline sober and get away with it. (It was a proud Honey Fitz who at 83 climbed upon a table and danced a merry jig and sang Sweet Adeline...
Some of the characters are played with more enterprise than others. Daniel Seltzer's independent, personable Ulysses, Robert Thurman's willowy, boyish Troilus, William Fitz-Hugh's dim-witted Ajax with his fatuous pride, Alvarez Bulos' slippery Pandarus with oily speech and manners, David Stone's manly Hector, Travis Linn's pious Nestor, Jean Weston's over-wrought, unkempt Cassandra--all have individuality in one degree or another...
...lifetime of political experience. He managed his first political campaign-Jack's first run for the Senate in 1952-before his 27th birthday. And, like all the rest of Clan Kennedy, Bobby learned about politics under the influence of his grandfather, John ("Honey Fitz") Fitzgerald, as soon as he learned to spoon up his Pablum by himself. The seventh of Joe and Rose Kennedy's nine children, he was born in his mother's bedroom in Brookline, Mass., was still in diapers when the family migrated to New York and Joe Kennedy set out to conquer Wall...