Word: hyannisport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years ago this weekend, they gathered before a fireplace in Hyannisport to rough out plans for J.F.K.'s run for the presidency. They all were there, handsome as Irish thoroughbreds, their eyes bright as dimes-Jack, Bobby, Teddy, Eunice, Jean, Pat, Ethel, Jackie, Joe and Rose. Together, attended by their Irish mafia, the Kennedys burst upon the decade to become its dominating political myth...
Gargan has the gregarious wit of a Boston pol. In July he became president of a bank in Hyannisport, and moved his wife Betty and two children to a house there partly in order to live close to the Kennedy compound...
...Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of the Kennedy-Kopechne tragedy was the spectacle of some of the nation's in tellectual and political leaders scurrying to Hyannisport to give sympathy and counsel to Ted Kennedy. A young woman's life was carelessly lost, but apparently more important was the struggle to save a rather shaky political future...
...believes in returning to normalcy as soon as possible, as she demonstrated again last week. In the first few days following the accident, she gave up her usual visit to 7 a.m. Mass at St. Francis Xavier Church in Hyannis, and a priest came to the Kennedy compound in Hyannisport instead. She also passed up her daily round of golf and canceled an appearance at a church bazaar when Ted suggested that...
After a few days she returned to her vigorous regimen: early morning Mass, a noontime swim in her pool or in Nantucket Sound, and a solitary afternoon of golf on the back nine of the Hyannisport Club. In between, she devotes time to her heavy correspondence, her work in behalf of the mentally retarded, and reading. She has received books on Greek history from Jackie Onassis, and an invitation to go on to Greece on her forthcoming visit to Paris to see her daughter Eunice and her son-in-law, U.S. Ambassador Sargent Shriver...