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When I was a kid, Eisenhower had been President forever, and all of a sudden, everything in the world was all about Jack Kennedy. I was 12, interested in politics; my father was from Massachusetts, had an accent like Kennedy.

— James Ellroy

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I would've loved Jack Kennedy. I would've loved to have campaigned for him and supported him. I wish there were more like him today.

— Rob Lowe

I was very political when JFK ran.

— Bob Newhart

Jack Kennedy was one year older than I was, and we attended the same neighborhood school.

— Mike Wallace

I didn't know Jack Kennedy that well, but Bobby was a hero to me.

— D. A. Pennebaker

Even though Jack Kennedy and I were about the same age and lived in the same neighborhood and attended the same elementary school, our paths seldom crossed during the years he lived in Brookline. I'm sure that in time, I would have gotten to know him better if he hadn't moved away.

— Mike Wallace

Television has an awful lot to do with the Kennedy mystique and the fact that he's frozen in people's minds at the age of 46, and he was handsome and personable and witty and charming.

— Robert Dallek

Before the Kennedys were elected, there had been older Presidents. Then here was this devastatingly attractive young couple with two beautiful children. They were so intelligent, graceful, gracious and funny. They enjoyed life so much. That's what caught America's eye.

— Letitia Baldrige

Kennedy was a lot of fun, always. He had something going on. But not Nixon.

— George Smathers

As much as I liked and admired the various members of the Kennedy family, my first loyalty was to Jackie.

— Pierre Salinger

I was a sort of son to Ike, and it was the other way round with Kennedy.

— Harold MacMillan

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