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I'm pretty sure that I was JFK in my past life.

I'm a product of the Kennedy era. Kennedy's Inaugural plus the accident of Dean Rusk brought me into the government. Those were my values.

Robert Kennedy was such an inspiring figure. His interest in politics seemed to come not from a desire for power, but from a need to help our society live up to its ideals.

I did meet Sen. Robert Kennedy, and it taught me something about political charisma.

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

Certainly I think the election of John Kennedy and all he stood for was one that really was an inspiration.

When I was younger, I thought of myself as a Nixon Republican because he was the anti-Communist.

I was a political science student.

I always wanted to become president! When I was a kid, I was obsessed with politics.

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.