Word: hyannisport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When he introduced himself to the Republican National Convention Wednesday as the guy that's going to beat Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54, the Superdome erupted. Nothing would make Republican happier than to send Teddy Kennedy back to Hyannisport...
...West Hyannisport, Mass...
When Washington got too hot, John F. Kennedy '40 huddled with aides, advisers and various family retainers at the clan's Hyannisport compound. Lyndon Baines Johnson left the civilized world for the Texas back country. Richard M. Nixon preferred more reclusive and comfortable respites, usually in San Clemente. Gerald R. Ford adjourned to the ski slopes of Vail, where ample snow softens falls. Jimmy Carter didn't seem to take many vacations...
...Cemetery. Afterward, the family was joined by a larger group, 500 of J.F.K.'s former colleagues and friends at an invitation-only memorial Mass at his old parish church in Washington's Georgetown. Prominent among the absentees was Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, 54, who spent the day in Hyannisport, Mass., with the President's mother, Rose, 93. Also missing: John Kennedy Jr., 23, who is studying in India. Among those at the site of the eternal flame were Senator Edward Kennedy, 51, Eunice Shriver, 62, and Caroline, 26. Said Senator Kennedy of his brother during the special tribute...
...days after his announcement Kennedy seemed relieved and relaxed. He said he believes he could have won the 1984 race had he entered. "Politically," he argued, "everything had been moving the other way-toward a declaration of candidacy." Kennedy struggled with his choice at the fam ily's Hyannisport compound on Cape Cod over the Thanksgiving holiday. On that Friday, his administrative aide, Lawrence Horowitz, gave the family a three-hour presentation purporting to show how Kennedy could win in 1984. But the Kennedy children, unmoved by Horowitz's sophisticated research and strategies, objected emphatically to the effect...