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When it came time to think about what to do with his life, "he was torn between his desire for public service and his desire for a career in theater or the arts," says Ted Van Dyk, a family friend. Van Dyk ran the Center for Democratic Policy, a liberal think tank in Washington, where Kennedy served an internship during the summer between his sophomore and junior years at Brown. "He had never really been to Washington," says Van Dyk. "He didn't even know where the White House was." Jackie had made a conscious decision to shield him from...
...office, and he was getting tired of faking it. In 1993, he left and began thinking about doing something big--another kind of public service, but one that would take a form he had grown all too familiar with: magazine journalism. He and a friend, public relations man Michael Berman, talked about creating a political magazine that would be glossy and entertaining but also empowering--one that would inspire alienated people to get involved in politics, and help give them the tools to do so. The magazine would also treat politics as spectacle and cultural barometer...
...crutches because he'd recently broken or sprained his ankle. And as we all walked away, a friend of his said to me, "Maurice worries about him flying that plane." Maurice Templesman, Jackie Onassis' longtime friend. "He's afraid John is too..." She couldn't think of the word, but it was something like distracted, scattered...
...night that John Kennedy died, a friend took Robert Kennedy to his bedroom. "God, it's so awful," Robert said. "Everything was really beginning to run so well." He seemed under control. The friend closed the door, then heard Bob break down...
...went into politics when Joe died, if anything happened to me tomorrow, my brother Bobby would run for my seat. And if anything happened to him, my brother Teddy would run for us." After the assassination, however, R.F.K. entered a long and deep depression. "Without Ethel," a friend once said, "Bobby might well have gone off the deep end." He found some solace in Sophocles and Aeschylus, but it was only in March 1965, when he scaled Mount Kennedy, the 13,900-ft. Yukon peak, that he was able to overcome his own darkness...