Word: jr
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...John Jr.'s death will only heighten the memories of the Kennedy years in the presidency, the core of the legend, years when the cold war was at its most intense and there was danger in the world, years when bright young men and women flocked to Washington to take part in the New Frontier. I remember Dallas, but I still don't begin to comprehend it. I heard the shots from the motorcade and then wandered on the lawn of Parkland Hospital throughout that afternoon as the bulletins confirmed the death of a President. So much had ended...
John Kennedy Jr. was one of the least cynical people I've ever met. When he was thinking of launching George magazine, we had lunch at a tiny Thai restaurant near his Manhattan office. I argued that getting folks inspired about politics was a daunting task. He leaned forward and placed both hands out on the table. "No, no, no," he said, his eyes wide. "People are less jaded than you think." He told me, with great passion, how much his father had relished the joy and nobility of politics and how he knew in his heart that people were...
Joseph Patrick Kennedy Jr. [*] 1915-1944 The family's first great hope became its first modem martyr. His plane exploded on a WWII bombing...
With George, the politics-and-celebrity magazine he founded and had edited since 1995, John F. Kennedy Jr. channeled the public attention that was his inheritance into a field where attention is the major currency. David Pecker, the former president and CEO of Hachette Filipacchi, George's publisher, recalls that after the 1992 election, Kennedy "became fascinated with the convergence of politics and pop culture," which was the organizing principle of George. Sporting Cindy Crawford on its first cover, George sought to draw celebrity-mad readers to politics, if not always for the most serious reasons--for instance...
...ready to shut it down. Kennedy told staff last week that he was negotiating with other potential publishers. But if George's future looks doubtful without Kennedy, it will at least be an important artifact for having bridged the worlds of politics and celebrity--worlds that John F. Kennedy Jr. knew from both sides...