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John F. Kennedy stories: 66 news summaries

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 Inauguration 
 Announcer 
 Been at Mic 
 Since Ike 

Brotman, 81, thinks Obama's may be most spectacular

Jan 16, 09 1:25 PM CST
(Newser) - Charlie Brotman, the octogenarian MC stationed closest to the presidential reviewing stand during Tuesday’s Inaugural Parade, has had a front-row seat to history since 1957, when he was chosen to announce President Eisenhower’s, USA Today reports. Brotman expects Barack Obama’s inauguration will be the most spectacular ever.... More »

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Barack Obama • Washington DC • John F. Kennedy • Ronald Reagan • inauguration • Dwight Eisenhower • Inauguration Day • inaugural parade • Charlie Brotman

Speechwriter Obama Gets Competitive

Inaugural address pressure is on, but Lincoln may help

Jan 16, 09 12:50 PM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama has nearly completed his inaugural address, and he's uniquely qualified to take on a seemingly insurmountable challenge: living up to the example set by the likes of Abraham Lincoln and John Kennedy. "I would think we would hear the most eloquent speech since JFK’s 48... More »

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Barack Obama • John F. Kennedy • Bill Clinton • Abraham Lincoln • inauguration • President Obama • Theodore Sorensen

 Inaugural Bibles: 
 Past Presidential Picks 

Lincoln provided the Bible, but Obama must turn to others for verse ideas

Jan 15, 09 11:52 AM CST
(Newser) - As Barack Obama prepares to take the oath of office Tuesday with his hand on the Lincoln Bible, the Wall Street Journal offers a sample of the Bibles other presidents have chosen—and the passages they've chosen to open them to. Eisenhower, Carter, and Bush Sr. took their oaths on... More »

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Barack Obama • Jimmy Carter • John F. Kennedy • Bill Clinton • George HW Bush • Abraham Lincoln • Bible • inauguration • Dwight Eisenhower • George Washington • President Obama • Inauguration Day • presidential oath

Upcoming Novel Portrays
JFK as Sex Maniac

Book paints prez as sex fiend

Jan 2, 09 9:15 AM CST
(Newser) - John F. Kennedy: beloved president, tragic hero, and…sex fiend? That’s how he’ll be painted when American Adulterer is published in July, the New York Post reports. The novel by British writer Jed Mercurio portrays JFK as a “compulsive philanderer” with an “uncontrollable and unrelenting appetite... More »

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John F. Kennedy • sex • president • Marilyn Monroe • adultery

Kennedy: 9/11, Obama Inspired Me to Seek Senate Seat

Campaign work pushed hopeful towards politics

Dec 27, 08 3:17 AM CST
(Newser) - The terrorists attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 and her work for Barack Obama's campaign helped push Caroline Kennedy towards a career in politics, the Senate hopeful tells the AP. Kennedy credited her mother with giving her the courage to seek the job, and said she hopes she will be able... More »

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Barack Obama • Senate • New York • John F. Kennedy • Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg • political appointee • Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

OPINION

 Send 
 Princess 
 Caroline 
 to DC 

Senate seat the perfect ending to her 'fairy tale'

Dec 9, 08 12:54 PM CST
(Newser) - Sure, you can make a case against it, but Caroline Kennedy becoming a senator would be the perfect ending to a "modern fairy tale," Ruth Marcus writes in the Washington Post. Putting aside her tendency to "recoil from political dynasties," Marcus points out that there are... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • New York • John F. Kennedy • Ted Kennedy • Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg • US Senate

OPINION

Obama Should Beware 'Best and Brightest'

A la JFK's Cabinet, too often masks poor judgment, inexperience

Dec 7, 08 1:18 PM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama has won praise for appointing “the best and the brightest” to his Cabinet during a time of war and economic hardship. But all the back-patting sounds a little too familiar, Frank Rich writes in the New York Times. “The stewards of the Vietnam fiasco had... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Vietnam • David Halberstam • John F. Kennedy • Paul Volcker • Robert Rubin • financial crisis • President Obama • Timothy Geithner • Lawrence Summers

Meet 'Renegade,' 'Rosebud,'  'Radiance,' 'Renaissance' 

Secret Service will use 'R' names for First Family

Nov 11, 08 9:08 AM CST
(Newser) - John McCain called himself a “maverick,” but the Secret Service has dubbed Barack Obama the real “Renegade," according to the Chicago Tribune. In keeping with tradition that’s been around since Harry Truman (“General”), the agency has given the president-elect’s family corresponding alliterative... More »

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Barack Obama • Joe Biden • Al Gore • Michelle Obama • Secret Service • John F. Kennedy • president • Sarah Palin • Malia Obama • Sasha Obama • President Obama

 At White House, 
 Youth Will Be Served 

Obamas must shelter girls from negatives, capitalize on positives on time in spotlight

Nov 9, 08 4:42 AM CST
(Newser) - Malia and Sasha Obama will be the youngest residents of the White House since 1977, and it will be a major responsibility for their parents to keep the spotlight from burning them, experts tell Newsday's parenting columnist. Today's 24/7 news cycle and the Obamas' status as the nation's first black... More »

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Barack Obama • Michelle Obama • White House • John F. Kennedy • Malia Obama • Sasha Obama • Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

ANALYSIS

 White Obama Support 
 Defies Doubters 

 

44% of white voters swing to Obama

Nov 3, 08 8:04 AM CST
(Newser) - A minority of white voters—44%—are now supporting Barack Obama, but he trails by less than previous Democratic presidential candidates, reports the New York Times, including Bill Clinton. Both the impact of racial attitudes and the proportion of white voters in the electorate have diminished, analysts say. In a... More »

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Barack Obama • abortion • race • Al Gore • gun control • Lyndon Johnson • John F. Kennedy • religion • Bill Clinton • Barry Goldwater • Herbert Hoover • white voters • the race card • Hispanics • Michael Beschloss

OPINION

 10 Senate Races to Watch 

Dems could pick up 8 seats; GOP could oust Landrieu in La.

Oct 31, 08 3:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - With 35 Senate seats up for grabs Tuesday, Chris Cillizza, in the Washington Post, predicts Democrats will flip eight. Two more are close calls for the Dems, while the GOP has one hope for a pickup. Starting with the most likely:
  1. Virginia is in the bag for Mark Warner;
... More »

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Barack Obama • Senate • Senate Democrats • John F. Kennedy • Mitch McConnell • Ted Stevens • Senate Republicans • Gordon Smith • Norm Coleman • Mary Landrieu • Elizabeth Dole • Al Franken • Mark Warner • Jeanne Shaheen • John Sununu • Senate race • Election 2008 • Tom Udall • Mark Begich • Mark Udall • Jeff Merkley • Kay Hagan • Jim Martin • Saxby Chambliss

OPINION

Running for Prez? How's Your Health?

Unlike JFK, Mac and Obama must reveal medical woes

Oct 19, 08 3:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - John F. Kennedy, the standard-bearer of youthful Camelot and the picture of presidential health, suffered from a litany of ailments including osteoporosis, back pain, and Addison’s disease, Robert Dallek writes in the New York Times. But the president’s loyalists buried the secrets for 40 years, prompting Dallek to... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • health • John F. Kennedy • Franklin D. Roosevelt • Election 2008 • medical records • health records

Jackie's Charm Sparked US Visit by Mona Lisa

First lady persuaded French to loan painting, boost our culture

Oct 9, 08 2:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - Jackie Kennedy executed a diplomatic coup in 1962, when she convinced the smitten French culture minister to send the Mona Lisa on a perilous journey. The painting's visit to the US—"then regarded as a country with hardly any culture at all," in the words of one historian—... More »

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France • art • John F. Kennedy • Mona Lisa • The Louvre • Cuban Missile Crisis • Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis • Andre Malraux • Charles de Gaulle

Kennedy Crafts Proposal for
Paid National Service 'Army'

Bill would recruit 175,000 workers

Sep 12, 08 2:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sen. Ted Kennedy has crafted a sweeping national service bill, to be introduced today, that would recruit 175,000 citizens of all ages to work in health, education, environmental protection and anti-poverty programs—with their pay partially subsidized by the government. The plan would provide $5 billion over five years... More »

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Senate • John F. Kennedy • Ted Kennedy • citizenship • legislation • community service

A Kennedy Finds Her Political Calling

Caroline's role in the Obama campaign is a serious 'coming out'

Jul 26, 08 5:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama's campaign has spurred John F. Kennedy's only surviving child to step into the political spotlight, and not just as window dressing, the Wall Street Journal reports. As co-chair of the candidate's vice-presidential search committee, she is a serious vetter, and she's becoming a major draw on the campaign... More »

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Barack Obama • John F. Kennedy • Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg • campaign staff

Reagan Was
a Berliner, Too, Son Reminds

Hurrying Wall's demise worth monument in city full of JFK iconography

Jul 2, 08 6:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - Ronald Reagan's son Michael is pushing Berlin to erect a monument to his dad. "He was able to bring together people who ultimately brought down the Berlin Wall," the right-wing talk-show host tells Der Spiegel during a trip to the German capital—home to numerous JFK tributes—to... More »

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Berlin • John F. Kennedy • Ronald Reagan • Berlin Wall • Michael Reagan

ANALYSIS

Obama Just Wants Evangelicals Not to Fear Him

Reassuring those unlikely to vote for him will cool opposition, could win over undecideds

Jun 27, 08 2:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama’s plan to cut the Democrats' evangelical deficit (68%-30% in 2000, 78-21% in '04)? Convince the religious right he’s not the devil. That’s a “radically different” course from the one taken by John Kerry and Al Gore, what Jeff Greenfield, on Slate, calls a “... More »

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Barack Obama • John F. Kennedy • James Dobson • Ronald Reagan • Catholicism • evangelicals • Election 2008 • the religious vote

OPINION

Caroline's Support of Obama Wise Move for the Kennedys

The partnership may serve her family even better than Obama

Jun 26, 08 7:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - No doubt the endorsements of Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg and her uncle were a major boon for Barack Obama, but Michelle Cottle writes in the New Republic that the union may have been “an even shrewder move” for Caroline. JFK's daughter, long the “anthologist of family memories,” has... More »

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Barack Obama • John F. Kennedy • Ted Kennedy • Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg

McCain Dares Obama to
10 Informal  Debates

Face-to-face showdowns could echo Lincoln-Douglas, Obama adviser suggests

Jun 4, 08 3:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - John McCain challenged Barack Obama today to fight mano a mano in a series of 10 intimate town-hall meetings between now and the Democratic primary in late August. The Republican's invitation, delivered in a speech and said to be modeled on a proposed Kennedy-Goldwater series, would be “free from... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • John F. Kennedy • Barry Goldwater • Abraham Lincoln • debates • town hall meeting • Stephen Douglas

OPINION

 JFK Negotiated
 (and Got His
 Butt Kicked) 

1961 summit with Khrushchev holds lessons for Obama

May 22, 08 12:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - On the campaign trail, Barack Obama often invokes a JFK maxim—"Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate"—to back up his commitment to talk to America's enemies. But in a Times op-ed, two writers observe that Kennedy learned a tough... More »

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Barack Obama • John F. Kennedy • Cold War • negotiation • Cuban Missile Crisis • appeasement • Nikita Khrushchev

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