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This was his protective pose. Underneath he was an earnest fellow with a high sense of legacy and responsibility. In any case, the Kennedys have always been late bloomers. I once ran into him on the shuttle to Washington. He was going to a meeting at the White House on the problem of access to higher education for boys and girls from the slums. He talked about this with surprising knowledge and enthusiasm...
There will always be the warm memories. I was in the Oval Office one day back then, and when I walked up to the President's desk I heard giggling and thumping underneath. John-John was in what he called his cave. Once when he peeked out and White House photographers got the picture, there was another image that traveled around the world: the reduction of great power to its simplest ingredient, a tiny boy exploring his world from the ground...
Just because a city native is less likely to tack on meaningless pleasantries to his or her comments doesn't mean that he or she is being mean. Underneath that gruff, hurried exterior New Yorkers are human beings too, with the same compassion and caring that mid-Westerners have. But strangers will not get a "hello, how are you?" from us--why should they? Do we know? Do we honestly care how they're feeling? No, of course not and such superficial behavior is beneath New Yorkers...
Just because a city native is less likely to tack on meaningless pleasantries to his or her comments doesn't mean that he or she is being mean. Underneath that gruff, hurried exterior New Yorkers are human beings too, with the same compassion and caring that mid-Westerners have. But strangers will not get a "hello, how are you?" from us--why should they? Do we know? Do we honestly care how they're felling? No, of course not and such superficial behavior is beneath New Yorkers...
...White House home page on the Web is pretty much what you'd expect: a stirring photo of the building with Old Glory flapping on either side and wonky links like "White House Help Desk" and "Commonly Requested Federal Services" lined up neatly underneath. But, hey, what's this tiny triangular marker by the "White House for Kids" link? And why, when you click on it, do you see a list of, um, non-government-sanctioned comments such as "Mommy, what's oral...