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...photographs of the Massachusetts Senator in a goofy space suit he had been photographed in during a visit to Cape Canaveral in Florida. Some from Bush's inner sanctum did admit that Kerry had given a forceful speech. And high praise went to earlier performances by Kerry's daughters Vanessa and Alexandra. "They are terrific," Hughes emailed Bartlett during their appearances. "The most compelling thing from [the Democrats]." Still, all the President's men saw openings in Kerry's address. For months they had lampooned him as a liberal and waffler. "He painted a big target on himself," Rove said...
WING MAN In a holding room under the stage, Edwards watches Kerry introduce himself to America. Beside Edwards, his daughter Cate shares the couch with Kerry's daughter Vanessa. In the chair is Kerry's sister Diana...
Brought together when their parents married in 1995, the kids have by now grown tired of references to the Brady Bunch. "It doesn't get at the fact that we're a very real family," says Vanessa Kerry, 27, a medical student at Harvard. While she concedes that initially they had to work to find common ground, today they "fight to find time to spend together." A key factor in such harmony, she says, is that each family respects the other's "legacy." For the Heinz men, that means their deceased father John; for Vanessa and sister Alexandra...
...Vanessa, a Yale grad, seems more at ease in front of a crowd than Alexandra, a Brown alum who this spring earned a degree from the American Film Institute. (A movie she wrote and directed was shown in May at the Cannes Film Festival.) But neither is quite as natural as Chris Heinz, 31, whose good looks and smooth confidence have left pundits divided over whether he should get a political platform or a screen test. He says he's inclined toward the former...
...impressions of Bill Clinton, among others), lives primarily in Stockholm and consults for an environmental group. Then there is John IV, 37, who declines all interviews and public appearances. Married with a daughter, he teaches at a Pennsylvania school and is involved in the Heinz Family Foundation. Vanessa insists that John is not a recluse, as he is invariably described. "He's a wonderful person who keeps his life as private as possible," she says. Acting as one, the rest of the family chooses to respect that. --By Michele Orecklin