Word: rosee
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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...
...Kennedy realized another ambition. He married Rose Fitzgerald, the lithe, convent-schooled daughter of Boston's ebullient Mayor John F. (Honey Fitz) Fitzgerald. Borrowing $2,000 for a down payment, Kennedy bought a nine-room frame house in the Brookline section of Boston. The family needed the space. Joe Jr. arrived within a year; five of the nine Kennedy children were born within six years...
...from injuries suffered as a result of the sinking of PT109. A few weeks later, daughter Kathleen's husband, the Marquess of Hartington, died leading an infantry charge in Normandy. Kathleen was to be killed four years later in a plane crash in France. A continuing heartbreak for Rose and Joe was their oldest daughter Rosemary, who is retarded...
However, the presence of burly police under orders not to let anyone leave and then re-renter the dining room, made the presentation impossible. Instead, Jeff Seder '70 rose from his seat and interrupted the beginning of Master Alvin M. Papenheimer, Jr's introduction to the President's speech...
About 25 of the 150 members of the House then rose and walked out of the dining hall...