![]() ![]() ![]() Kennedy's campaign plane in late 1959 was called "The Caroline," after his daughter, a point warmly noted by journalists at the time. With President Kennedy, politics became more personal and a politician's family started to matter. saluting his father's casket that has become as recognizable a symbol as any of his family's never-ending tragedies. It is the heartbreaking photograph of John F. "This is our first television family - we watched that family and that family was part of the national consciousness in the way that others have not been," said author David Halberstam. Even as he made his way in New York literary circles with his magazine, George, those watching him could still remember the child photographed by Look magazine peering from under his father's Oval Office desk. Those images became part of the national memories that followed John Jr. President Kennedy understood the power of those pictures - his photogenic family enhanced his own popularity, and while Jacqueline Kennedy was said to have steadfastly tried to keep her children out of the spotlight, the president often allowed those pictures when she was not looking. ![]()
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