Caroline Kennedy
Caroline Bouvier Kennedy is an American author, attorney, and diplomat. She served as the United States Ambassador to Japan from 2013 to 2017. Kennedy is the only surviving child of President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline BouvierKennedy. Kennedy graduated from Radcliffe College and worked at Manhattan’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Caroline Bouvier Kennedy is an American author, attorney, and diplomat. She served as the United States Ambassador to Japan from 2013 to 2017. Kennedy is the only surviving child of President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline BouvierKennedy. Kennedy graduated from Radcliffe College and worked at Manhattan’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. She later earned a J. D. degree from Columbia Law School. Most of Kennedy’s professional life has spanned law and politics, as well as education reform and charitable work. She has also acted as a spokesperson for her family’s legacy and co-authored two books with Ellen Aldermanon on civil liberties. Kennedy and her uncle, Ted Kennedy, endorsed Democratic candidate Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election. She also stumped for him in Florida, Indiana, and Ohio, served as co-chair of his Vice Presidential Search Committee, and addressed the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver. Caroline received numerous gifts from dignitaries, including a puppy from Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and a Yucatán pony from Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson. Caroline frequently attended kindergarten in classes that were organized by her mother, and she was often photographed riding her pony \”Macaroni\” around the White House grounds. As a small child, Caroline received many gifts, such as a pony from Lyndon Johnson and the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS John F Kennedy. In 1967, Caroline and her brother John Jr. were surrounded by a large number of press photographers while playing in the midst of the Kennedy ancestral home at Dunganstown, Ireland, where they met President Éamon de Valera and visited the ancestral home of the Kennedys.
Caroline’s paternal grandmother, Rose Kennedy, said of her: \”She probably thinks it’s natural for children to go off in their own airplanes. But she is with her cousins, and some of them dance and swim better than she. They do not allow her to take special precedence. Little children accept things\”. On the day of JFK’s assassination on November 22, 1963, nanny Maud Shaw took Caroline andJohn Jr. away from the White house to the home of their maternal grandmother, Janet Bouvier Auchincloss, who insisted that Shaw would be the one to tell Caroline that her father was assassinated. On December 6, weeks after the assassination, Jacqueline, and John Jr., moved out of theWhite House and moved to a penthouse apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. The following year, the family left Georgetown and later moved to 1040 Fifth Avenue in New York City. Caroline had a younger brother, John Jr, who was born just before her third birthday in 1960. Her infant brother, Patrick, died two days after his premature birth in 1963. Caroline lived with her parents in Georgetown, Washington, D. C. during the first three years of her life. When Caroline was three years old, theFamily moved to the WhiteHouse after her dad was sworn in as President of the United.
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