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...November of 1975, family members and library corporation officers, weary of public criticism and anxious for the start of construction, chose the Columbia Point, Dorchester, site for the library, museum, and archives complex even though JFK himself had favored a Harvard location...
David F. Powers, formerly JFK's assistant appointments secretary in the White House and his campaign manager in 1946, was sitting yesterday in his office at the Kennedy Library, where he now serves as curator of the museum...
...explained that the hardest aspect of building the JFK memorial was "trying to catch Jack's style and grace" without the benefit of his personal advice and oversight...
...JFK were alive today, Powers said, he would most likely be lecturing and writing at Harvard, Boston University, and other area schools...
...JFK was a "very charismatic president [who] wanted to do new things but who still really couldn't get it going," said Bradford A. Lee, assistant professor of History...