Two big new miniseries, 'The Kennedys' and 'The Borgias,' take onhistorical figures. But in the...By GoodaleGloria
After winning the 1960 presidential election, John F. Kennedy appointed his younger brother, Robert, as U.S. attorney general. “Bobby” was just thirty-five, and, although a graduate of Virginia Law School, had little legal experience. Although the appointment was a bold act of nepotism, it...
12. June 2024·Comments Offon The Rainbow Limit – A Personal Rant· Categories:Ain't That America? Here we are, only a bare week and a half into “Pride Month” and I’m already tired of it all – triggered by an email for a fabric and interior decorating store that I did subscrib...
Even today, generations later, everyone knows about the Kennedy assassination and the images that were left by it in that day in November of 1963. One of the most famous ones was of the glamorous first lady Jackie. Photos of her wearing that pink dress and pillbox hat in Dallas became a ...
you, but what you can do for Choate," and Kennedy may have used this phrasing, adapted from his headmaster, in his famous inaugural address, delivered in January of 1961. Some historians, however, are critical of the idea that Kennedy would have lifted the quote from his former headmaster...
Nicknamed “the Bay State,” it’s known for its top-notch universities, baked beans, clam chowder, Cape Cod’s summer paradise, Plymouth Rock, and the Kennedys. New Hampshire. Bearing a kick-butt state motto (“Live Free or Die”), New Hampshire is the rebel of the New England states...
So, why the Kennedys as a subject for this book? There are so many reasons as to why I picked this extraordinary family and I will endeavour to outline a few of them. My first encounter with the Kennedy story probably came as a teenager, watching the Rock 'n' Roll Years on B...
Today I was thinking about the huge gap that now exists in the U.S. between the very very rich, the .01 percent, and everyone else, when I came across the beautiful rendition of “The Times They Are A-Changing” that Bruce Springsteen performed on December 7, 1997...