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There was enough free time during the weekend prep sessions for Kennedy to teach Gwirtzman how to waterski—even though, as Gwirtzman recalls, “it took about 14 times falling down...
Milton S. Gwirtzman ’54, a former Crimson editorial chair, says that he and Culver went to Kennedy’s home in Hyannis Port, Mass. on the weekends during the 1962 campaign to help prepare the candidate for his speeches and debates...
While Kennedy was willing to take risks and challenge his friends on the field and in the water, Gwirtzman says that Kennedy does not let undue aggression interfere with politics...
...point during the campaign, Gwirtzman recalls, he and Kennedy were driving to speak to Kennedy’s classmates in Harvard Square, which was then overpopulated with bicycles—one of which presumably belonged to one of Kennedy’s opponents, left-leaning Gurney Professor of History and Political Science H. Stuart Hughes. Gwirtzman recalls that Kennedy’s driver, Jack Crimmins, asked Kennedy to point out Hughes’s bicycle so Crimmins could “take the air out of the tires...
...Gwirtzman says that Kennedy responded that he would not support attacking bicycles—at least not when it would interfere with his message...