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President Kennedy: Profile of Power
Ebook1,411 pages25 hours
By Richard Reeves
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President Kennedy is the compelling, dramatic history of JFK's thousand days in office. It illuminates the presidential center of power by providing an indepth look at the day-by-day decisions and dilemmas of the thirty-fifth president as he faced everything from the threat of nuclear war abroad to racial unrest at home. "A narrative that leaves us not only with a new understanding of Kennedy as President, but also with a new understanding of what it means to be President" (The New York Times).
Richard Reeves is the author of presidential bestsellers, including President Nixon and President Kennedy, acclaimed as the best nonfiction book of the year by Time magazine. A syndicated columnist and winner of the American Political Science Association's Carey McWilliams Award, he lives in New York and Los Angeles.
Maria Shriver
American journalist and author (born 1955)
Maria Shriver | |
|---|---|
Shriver in 2018 | |
| In role November 17, 2003 – January 3, 2011 | |
| Governor | Arnold Schwarzenegger |
| Preceded by | Sharon Davis |
| Succeeded by | Anne Gust Brown |
| Born | Maria Owings Shriver (1955-11-06) November 6, 1955 (age 69) Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Political party | Independent (2011–present) |
| Other political affiliations | Democratic (until 2011) |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 4, including Katherine and Patrick Schwarzenegger |
| Parents | |
| Relatives | Shriver family Kennedy family Chris Pratt (son-in-law) |
| Residence(s) | Brentwood, Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Education | Georgetown University (BA) |
| Profession | |
| Signature | |
Maria Owings Shriver (SHRY-vər; born November 6, 1955) is an American journalist, author, a member of the prominent Shriver and Kennedy families, former First Lady of California, and the founder of the nonprofit organization The Women's Alzheimer's Movement. She was married to former governor of California and actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, from whom she filed for divorce in 2011; it was finalized in 2021.
Shriver began her journalism career at CBS station KYW-TV and briefly anchored the CBS Morning News before joining NBC News in 1986. After anchoring weekend editions of the Today show and the NBC Nightly News, she became a correspondent for Dateline NBC, also covering politics. After leaving NBC News in 2004 to focus on her role as First Lady of California, she returned in 2013 as a special anchor. For her reporting at NBC, Shriver received a Peabody Award in 1998 and was co-anchor for NBC's Emmy-winning coverage of the 1988 Summer Olympics.
As executive producer of The Alzheimer's Project, Shriver earned two Emmy Awards and an Academy of Television Arts & Sciences award for developing a "television show with a conscience."
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Behind the walls of Camelot: Fascinating new book lays bare the triumphs and tragedies that unfolded inside the iconic Kennedy estate in Hyannis Port - where JFK's father Joe seduced Gloria Swanson and Jackie O retreated to grieve her husband's death
Back when the world was their oyster, Hyannis Port and the briny coast of New England was the Kennedy family's oyster bed.
Photos of their perpetually smiling faces playing football on the front lawn, sailing the Nantucket Sound, khaki shorts and rolled up sleeves. Freshly-pressed summer dresses, windblown hair and bare feet have become as much a part of the American iconography as Marilyn Monroe standing on the subway grate.
Here's an unstressed JFK looking picture perfect on top of his beloved sailboat. A group shot of all nine children on the beach looking toothy and goofy. There's Jackie O in a tailored A-line dress meeting her fiancé's family for the first time. Then later, as First Lady, while lounging on blue patio furniture with her children John Jr. and Caroline and their bevy of dogs.
For almost a century, the rambling white clapboard mansion at 50 Marchant Avenue has served as a coastal playground for the Kennedy clan and later generations to laugh, play, and grieve away from the public eye.
It's where JFK plotted his political career from freshman congressman, to senator and President of the United States. It's where John and Jacqueline Bouvier posed for Life Magazine as a newly engaged couple; and where the family gathered in full to watch the nail-biting election returns that made John F. Kennedy the 35th President of the United States.
Among the chintz sofas, hook rugs and matching drapes, the legend of Camelot was born.
It would also be a place that sustained them during more trying times, as the so-called 'Kennedy curse' struck the family with four of the children killed prematurely in the following years.
It's where the family first learned that Joe Jr, a bomber pilot in WWII, was killed Within a week of getting engaged, Mariah and Tellef agreed they would marry at Hyannis Port the following summer. “Hyannis Port is a place where Tellef and I love to spend time each summer on the water,” Mariah explains. “In between our own wedding weekend’s schedule of formal wedding events, waterskiing, sailing, walks on the beach, volleyball, and yard games fill any spare time.” The couple had about eight months to get everything squared away, so they quickly reached out to family and close friends, who were eager to be involved in wedding planning and lend their support and expertise.
The couple met once a week with their event planners at Taylor Made Experience and an extended planning committee, spearheaded by Mariah’s mom, Kerry Kennedy, along with her twin sister, Cara, and her mother’s boyfriend, George. “People warned me that wedding planning would be an incredible stressor, but my experience was the opposite,” Mariah says. “Everyone’s positivity, enthusiasm, and creativity made the process a meaningful and memorable experience. I will miss it when it’s over!” Meanwhile, her sister Michaela took the lead early in setting up an engagement party, which was held in New York City in March of 2024 at Sincerely, Ophelia. “My dad was [also] a constant source of guidance and support for Tellef and me in countless ways throughout the process and even agreed to take father-daughter dance classes, which were both special and a ton of fun,” Mariah says.
To commemorate the start of the wedding weekend, 100 white flags with big pink hearts flew on flagpoles at houses and on sailboats in the harbor of the little Massachusetts town. “It was so touching and wonderful to behold,” Mariah says, “and a beautiful testament to the unique community here.” The wedding weekend began on Friday morning with Mariah and Tellef planting a magnolia tree—a family tradition—together. Afterward, they went straight to the dock for a sailboat race celebrating Tellef’s Norwegian Viking ro
Behind the walls of Camelot: Fascinating new book lays bare the triumphs and tragedies that unfolded inside the iconic Kennedy estate in Hyannis Port - where JFK's father Joe seduced Gloria Swanson and Jackie O retreated to grieve her husband's death
Back when the world was their oyster, Hyannis Port and the briny coast of New England was the Kennedy family's oyster bed.
Photos of their perpetually smiling faces playing football on the front lawn, sailing the Nantucket Sound, khaki shorts and rolled up sleeves. Freshly-pressed summer dresses, windblown hair and bare feet have become as much a part of the American iconography as Marilyn Monroe standing on the subway grate.
Here's an unstressed JFK looking picture perfect on top of his beloved sailboat. A group shot of all nine children on the beach looking toothy and goofy. There's Jackie O in a tailored A-line dress meeting her fiancé's family for the first time. Then later, as First Lady, while lounging on blue patio furniture with her children John Jr. and Caroline and their bevy of dogs.
For almost a century, the rambling white clapboard mansion at 50 Marchant Avenue has served as a coastal playground for the Kennedy clan and later generations to laugh, play, and grieve away from the public eye.
It's where JFK plotted his political career from freshman congressman, to senator and President of the United States. It's where John and Jacqueline Bouvier posed for Life Magazine as a newly engaged couple; and where the family gathered in full to watch the nail-biting election returns that made John F. Kennedy the 35th President of the United States.
Among the chintz sofas, hook rugs and matching drapes, the legend of Camelot was born.
It would also be a place that sustained them during more trying times, as the so-called 'Kennedy curse' struck the family with four of the children killed prematurely in the following years.
It's where the family first learned that Joe Jr, a bomber pilot in WWII, was killed Within a week of getting engaged, Mariah and Tellef agreed they would marry at Hyannis Port the following summer. “Hyannis Port is a place where Tellef and I love to spend time each summer on the water,” Mariah explains. “In between our own wedding weekend’s schedule of formal wedding events, waterskiing, sailing, walks on the beach, volleyball, and yard games fill any spare time.” The couple had about eight months to get everything squared away, so they quickly reached out to family and close friends, who were eager to be involved in wedding planning and lend their support and expertise. The couple met once a week with their event planners at Taylor Made Experience and an extended planning committee, spearheaded by Mariah’s mom, Kerry Kennedy, along with her twin sister, Cara, and her mother’s boyfriend, George. “People warned me that wedding planning would be an incredible stressor, but my experience was the opposite,” Mariah says. “Everyone’s positivity, enthusiasm, and creativity made the process a meaningful and memorable experience. I will miss it when it’s over!” Meanwhile, her sister Michaela took the lead early in setting up an engagement party, which was held in New York City in March of 2024 at Sincerely, Ophelia. “My dad was [also] a constant source of guidance and support for Tellef and me in countless ways throughout the process and even agreed to take father-daughter dance classes, which were both special and a ton of fun,” Mariah says. To commemorate the start of the wedding weekend, 100 white flags with big pink hearts flew on flagpoles at houses and on sailboats in the harbor of the little Massachusetts town. “It was so touching and wonderful to behold,” Mariah says, “and a beautiful testament to the unique community here.” The wedding weekend began on Friday morning with Mariah and Tellef planting a magnolia tree—a family tradition—together. Afterward, they went straight to the dock for a sailboat race celebrating Tellef’s Norwegian Viking ro