Word: josephe
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...Joseph Kennedy II 1952- --Massachusetts Congressman 1986-98. Founded and heads Citizens Energy Corp., which provides inexpensive heating oil to the poor...
...Joseph P. Kennedy, founder of the Kennedy clan, wanted badly for his sons to conquer Washington. But he didn't much like the term politics, a word that opened too easily onto whole vistas of abandoned ideals and fishy dealings, something he was sensitive about as a businessman accused of bootlegging and stock manipulations. What Joe preferred was the more sanitary phrase public service. All the same, Joe's main notion of public service was the kind that gets you a seat in Congress and then a desk in the Oval Office. So when it came to choosing their lifework...
...probably not coincidental that those last two are Joseph Kennedy's eldest grandchildren, the ones closest in time to his message about the supreme importance of elected office. At the age of 17, Joe II was already asking, "What other way is there for someone like me to accomplish something of value?" It turns out there were plenty of other ways. Among the Kennedy cousins, public service is still a kind of genetic predisposition. But most of them have done what J.F.K. Jr. did: served public purposes through private means, by way of charitable foundations or lives of activism pursued...
...Joseph and Rose Kennedy 1888-1969, 1890-1995 --The driving force of Kennedy ambition, Joe worked tirelessly to promote his sons' political careers. Rose imbued both her children and grandchildren with a strong sense of family and social responsibility...
Eunice Kennedy Shriver 1921- --A social worker in Harlem during the '40s, she runs the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation, which helps the mentally retarded. She founded the Special Olympics and is credited with its success --Husband Sargent Shriver headed the Peace Corps. In 1972 he was George McGovern's running mate...