There have not been children of comparable youth in the White House since the Kennedy era.
When President Kennedy took office, I was in the midst of my education.
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.
I have worked in every - every Democratic administration since the Kennedy administration, and I know dysfunctionality when I see it.
Kennedy was the driving force of reform in America.
You'll think I'm off my trolley when I say this, but the Bush administration is the most radical - in a positive sense - in its approach to Africa since Kennedy.
I don't care what your politics are, I would wager that if you asked any American woman which administration would she have most liked to work for as social secretary, she would pick Jacqueline Kennedy's White House as the place to be.
I see a direct line between Kennedy and Richard Nixon and the opening to China and the detente with the Soviet Union.
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.
