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 Hair Color: reddish brown Eye color: greenish grey Height: 6’ I.Q.: 119 Astrological sign: Gemini Weight when elected: 167 pounds Body mass index: 22.6 Cholesterol level: 410 Blood type: O positive Hat size: 7 5/8 (extremely large) Jacket size: 40” Waistline: 32” Shoe size: 10C House at Harvard: Winthrop Medals he won for wartime service: Purple Heart and Navy and Marine Corps Medal First year he voted in a local primary election: in 1946, age 29, when his own name was on the ballot Gift to ushers at his wedding: a Brooks Brothers umbrella engraved with the recipient’s initials and the wedding date Age at which he lost his virginity: at age 17, when he and Lem Billings went to the same New York City prostitute, who charged three dollars How many children he wanted: five, at least, but not too close together Year he was Time Magazine’s “Man of the Year”: 1961 Temperature of the White House pool: 90 degrees, to ease the pain in his back Actor whom he chose to play him in the 1963 movie based on his PT-109 adventure: Warren Beatty (Beatty declined, and Cliff Robertson played JFK) Routine gifts he gave: to acquaintances, a copy of Bartlett’s Quotations; to friends, an inscribed silver bowl His first Executive Order: Executive Order No. 1, Jan. 21, 1961, to increase the variety and double the quantity of surplus foods for four million poor Americans His golf score: high 70s and low 80s County in Ireland from which the Kennedy family came: County Wexford His ideas for a post-presidential career: to be President of Harvard, Ambassador to Ireland, a Senator, or to found or buy a newspaper. He suggested that the Senate consider passing a bill that would make every former president an honorary member. Happiest day of his life: July 10, 1963, the day he signed the instruments of ratification for the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty What he believed to be the greatest single problem in the 1960s: nuclear proliferation The honor that made him happiest: winning the Pulitzer Prize for Biography What he considered the most admirable of human virtues: courage What he said was his best quality: curiosity What he said was his worst quality: irritability impatience with the boring or mediocre Kennedy’s greatest fear: that he might be the President to start a nuclear war Things at which he didn’t excel: playing poker and learning foreign languages Essence of the Kennedy legacy, according to Bobby Kennedy: “a willingness to try and to dare and to change, to hope for the uncertain and risk the unknown.” What Kennedy wanted to be said of his presidency: “He kept the peace.” | |
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