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What will Vaughn Meader do? ... a reflection on Nov 22, 1963 - 11/22/2004 12:52:19 PM I was in the 11th grade at Jesse W. Grainger High School in one of those hundreds of small towns (pop 20,000) across America. Yes, I “remember where I was” when the announcement came over the intercom on Nov 22, 1963. “President Kennedy has been shot”. It was probably Principal Frank L. Mock that told us but I don’t recall. I wasn’t scared or traumatized, but I recall worrying about Vaughn Meader. There’s a trivia question for you … Who was Vaughn Meader? Meader...

Before he died in a tragic plane crash in July 1999, John F. Kennedy, Jr. was weighing a decision to run for Senate in New York. But according to a new book, then first lady Hillary Clinton short-circuited the plan by declaring her interest in the same office. "John watched with growing dismay as Hillary subtly insinuated herself into what he considered his state," Laurence Leamer writes in "Sons of Camelot." Leamer says Kennedy was considering abandoning his job as publisher of George Magazine to make his first run for office - and had begun polling on the prospect of...

Meanwhile: The White House intern with the permanent wave Nora Ephron NYT Tuesday, May 20, 2003 NEW YORK I too was an intern in the JFK White House. I was. This is not one of those humor pieces where the writer pretends to some experience related to the news to make an "amusing" point. It was 1961, and I was hired by Pierre Salinger to work in the White House press office, the very same place where Mimi Beardsley, later Fahnestock, was to work the next year. And now that Mimi Fahnestock has been forced to come forward to admit...

Kerry candidacy inspires comparison to other JFK By SCOTT SHEPARD Cox News Service WASHINGTON -- Is America ready to be led by another Massachusetts senator, a former Navy war hero with the initials "JFK," a rich, Catholic Bostonian with patrician looks and a glamorous wife, a forward-looking Democrat with a challenge to countrymen to be a part of something larger than themselves? John Forbes Kerry, the three-term senator from Massachusetts, the much-decorated former gunboat captain in Vietnam, the aristocrat with the Boston brogue and the Mozambique-born heiress wife, thinks so. But don't suggest to Kerry that he represents a chance...