Posted on 07/25/2004 6:47:45 PM PDT by pittsburgh gop guy
After meeting John Kerry at a 1964 barbecue, filmmaker-photographer George Butler (Pumping Iron) became a kind of Boswell with camera: joining Kerry on his first honeymoon, managing his first (unsuccessful) political campaign and shooting more than 6,000 photographs—so far. This September Butler will release both a documentary and a book, John Kerry: A Portrait (Bulfinch Press). TIME picked the following photographs from Butler's portfolio
BEGINNINGS
In 1970, with fiancé Julia Thorne, Kerry mulled a House run
IN FLIGHT
Once a stunt pilot, Kerry (with Julia ) mastered the politician's art of napping on short hops
BIG MOMENT
Kerry on Capitol Hill for '71 hearing that made his name as a decorated antiwarrior
DOUSED
Kerry with new wife Julia at thier wedding. Friends had just tossed him into a pond
THE ACTIVIST
Kerry waits out some rain at a peace rally in New York City's Bryant Park in April 1972
(LET THE LITTLE PEOPLE WAIT IN THE RAIN - I'M JFK - I CAN'T GET WET!)
WOUND LICKING
Kerry built model planes after his failed bid in '72
(LOOKS LIKE A MENTAL PATIENT IN THIS PICTURE)
TRAILMATES
With Julia's brother David Thorne. Their friendship survived the Kerrys' 1988 divorce
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REGROUPING
John Kerry sits on a rock in a bomber jacket looking pensively through the fog on Mount Webster in New Hampshire after the November, 1972 election loss.
FAMILY TIES
Kerry with daughters Alexandra and Vanessa on the night of his 1984 Senate win
GAZING AHEAD
Hugging Alexandra after a day spent hiking on the Cape in 1987
ASSESSING THE FIELD
The Senator sketching at the Cape Cod, Mass., home he rented in 1987
(NICE PINK/PURPLE SHIRT)
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(I WILL LET THE LADIES COMMENT ON THE DRESS) |
BLENDED BLISS
In 1995 Kerry wedded Teresa. His father, left, and both sets of children attended
| VICTORY With second wife Teresa, his parents and daughters, as his 1996 Senate win is televised |
Good Lord! There is NO REASON for this dress in 1995.
SO He was ALWAYS UGLY!!!!!
What a cheap looking UGLY dress. I designed and made my own wedding dress in 1973 and it was GORGEOUS compared to Teresa's dress, and MINE ACTUALLY FIT.
"Honey, promise me you'll never appear in a see-through dress at the premiere of a Michael Moore film in France."
"I promise, Daddy!"
Kerry and his family look like they belong on the back stretch at any race track in the country. Can you say whiney!
Actually, they look like they belong on the track... with a jockey on top of each.
What are they, mutant Eskimos or something? He's kissing Terrayyyza on her NOSE!
I don't trust anybody whose ambition from birth is to be POTUS!
It looks like a dust ruffle. I turned away in pain when I first saw it........
Are you sure he's building a childs model plane? It looks more like he's rolling a joint.
Have at it!
....Sorry. I'm way too weak from nausea. You guys go ahead...URRPPPP...(BARF)
Me, too. I assumed it was from the early 1960s or something, NOT from 1995. Seems like they used to dress like that on LAWERENCE WELK SHOW!!!!
My favorite: John Kerry sits on a rock in a bomber jacket looking pensively through the fog on Mount Webster in New Hampshire after the November, 1972 election loss.
The bomber jacket, of course, is a reminder of his military "career" (he served in Vietnam, in case you hadn't heard), and I'm sure it was a coincidence that he happened to throw it on before going to Mount Webster to gaze "pensively through the fog" -- which is a rare talent.
The last one we had who wanted to be POTUS from birth was Billy BLYTHE BUBBA Clinton.
Tiny Tim on the far right !!
LOL. You're right. It is Tiny Tim.
Now there's a wedding with class - NOT!!!
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