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  • Caroline Kennedy called off Senate run on her children's advice (not because she was unwanted)

    05/05/2009 12:54:43 PM PDT · by presidio9 · 57 replies · 2,337+ views
    New York Daily News ^ | Tuesday, May 5th 2009 | David Saltonstall
    In the end, Caroline Kennedy's teenage children convinced her to get out of the running for the U.S. Senate, a new exposé on America's most storied political family reveals. "Mom, you are above this," older daughter Rose Kennedy Schlossberg, 19, reportedly told her mom last Jan. 21 - hours before Kennedy called Gov. Paterson to end her bid for Hillary Clinton's old Senate seat. The report in Vanity Fair magazine details for the first time what became a pivotal family meeting during which all three of Kennedy's children expressed worry over her sudden detour into electoral politics. Citing an unnamed...