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Caroline Kennedy presents refreshing take on Christmas
By MARIANNE MEANS
SYNDICATED COLUMNIST
WASHINGTON -- When it comes to the Christmas holiday, Caroline Kennedy gets it. She is the only living child of President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy, whose images dominated our hearts in the early 1960s and shaped the tastes and thoughts of generations.
But she is now -- shockingly -- 50 years old, which she celebrated by posing for the cover of AARP, the old-folks lobby. This is unimaginable to those of us who covered the White House long ago and remember her as an adorable tot alongside her little brother John.
But she has matured well, and had three children of her own with her husband Ed Schlossberg, who is described by other family members who are friends of ours as a genius.
She's gone to law school and written serious books. She has now compiled an anthology of poems, letters, lyrics and other written observations from all sorts of people down through the ages about the holiday, called "A Family Christmas," published by Hyperion and debuting on The New York Times' nonfiction best-seller list at No. 9, and The Washington Post's list at No. 5.
She includes her own experiences as well as research into the historic connotations of past holidays. Did you know that Gen. George Washington crossed the Delaware River to trounce the British invaders on Christmas Day, and then wrote a letter to John Hancock to tell him all about it?
If he'd only had e-mail, it would have been quicker.
Tim Russert interviewed her on "Meet the Press" on NBC, and it was a refreshing change from all the political know-nothing speculation about the looming Iowa and New Hampshire primaries going on in other interviews.
She talked about the holiday as a time of love and peace and getting along, not a time of political warfare.
She reminded us that the holiday started as a religious observation to celebrate the birth of Jesus, but that over the years it has become a cultural, social and historical event to be shared by everyone who feels love at this time or indeed at any time.
She has remained determinedly officially nonpolitical as an adult, although obviously she's a Kennedy and Democratic. It's too bad she can't spread some of her sense of brotherhood and good will to the rest of the political world.
The House of Representatives left town on a very sour note, passing a resolution declaring that so-called democratic body "acknowledges and supports the role played by Christians and Christianity in the founding of the United States. ..."
There's a lot more religious stuff in there, and not a mention of acknowledging other religions or people unaffiliated with any Christian church.
The resolution was proposed, predictably, by a GOP religious right nut cake from Iowa, Rep. Steve King. It got 177 GOP votes, 195 Democratic votes and 9 Democratic "no" votes.
Forty were not there, and 10 members voted present. Rep Barney Frank, D-Mass, who is Jewish, abstained, but said he would never vote again for a resolution recognizing any religious holiday. Any one! He came late to this principled position but at least he got there.
This shameful performance is the natural outgrowth of the religious pandering of the Bush administration, which has been escalated by some of the GOP presidential candidates. The pander parade has been led by former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, a former Baptist minister whose ads proclaim him to be "a Christian leader."
His Christmas commercial featured not only the customary religious trappings, but also a shelf behind him strategically lit to make it seem like a cross. He, of course, denied such deliberate, highlighted staging.
But there is no professional photographer or his candidate in the world who would not have noticed the convenient symbol. When did we become a country so thirsty for a president of moral certainty we are willing to embrace a candidate who represents one religion, and one religion only, rather than the mixed religious bag that a free nation allows and encourages?
It is hoped that this is only the nasty tendency of Republican conservatives and not the whole country. If Huckabee wins the GOP nomination, the Democratic candidate can dispatch him back to Arkansas next year. Happy holidays.
Caroline Kennedy presents refreshing take on Christmas
By MARIANNE MEANS
SYNDICATED COLUMNIST
WASHINGTON -- When it comes to the Christmas holiday, Caroline Kennedy gets it. She is the only living child of President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy, whose images dominated our hearts in the early 1960s and shaped the tastes and thoughts of generations.
But she is now -- shockingly -- 50 years old, which she celebrated by posing for the cover of AARP, the old-folks lobby. This is unimaginable to those of us who covered the White House long ago and remember her as an adorable tot alongside her little brother John.
But she has matured well, and had three children of her own with her husband Ed Schlossberg, who is described by other family members who are friends of ours as a genius.
She's gone to law school and written serious books. She has now compiled an anthology of poems, letters, lyrics and other written observations from all sorts of people down through the ages about the holiday, called "A Family Christmas," published by Hyperion and debuting on The New York Times' nonfiction best-seller list at No. 9, and The Washington Post's list at No. 5.
She includes her own experiences as well as research into the historic connotations of past holidays. Did you know that Gen. George Washington crossed the Delaware River to trounce the British invaders on Christmas Day, and then wrote a letter to John Hancock to tell him all about it?
If he'd only had e-mail, it would have been quicker.
Tim Russert interviewed her on "Meet the Press" on NBC, and it was a refreshing change from all the political know-nothing speculation about the looming Iowa and New Hampshire primaries going on in other interviews.
She talked about the holiday as a time of love and peace and getting along, not a time of political warfare.
She reminded us that the holiday started as a religious observation to celebrate the birth of Jesus, but that over the years it has become a cultural, social and historical event to be shared by everyone who feels love at this time or indeed at any time.
She has remained determinedly officially nonpolitical as an adult, although obviously she's a Kennedy and Democratic. It's too bad she can't spread some of her sense of brotherhood and good will to the rest of the political world.
The House of Representatives left town on a very sour note, passing a resolution declaring that so-called democratic body "acknowledges and supports the role played by Christians and Christianity in the founding of the United States. ..."
There's a lot more religious stuff in there, and not a mention of acknowledging other religions or people unaffiliated with any Christian church.
The resolution was proposed, predictably, by a GOP religious right nut cake from Iowa, Rep. Steve King. It got 177 GOP votes, 195 Democratic votes and 9 Democratic "no" votes.
Forty were not there, and 10 members voted present. Rep Barney Frank, D-Mass, who is Jewish, abstained, but said he would never vote again for a resolution recognizing any religious holiday. Any one! He came late to this principled position but at least he got there.
This shameful performance is the natural outgrowth of the religious pandering of the Bush administration, which has been escalated by some of the GOP presidential candidates. The pander parade has been led by former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, a former Baptist minister whose ads proclaim him to be "a Christian leader."
His Christmas commercial featured not only the customary religious trappings, but also a shelf behind him strategically lit to make it seem like a cross. He, of course, denied such deliberate, highlighted staging.
But there is no professional photographer or his candidate in the world who would not have noticed the convenient symbol. When did we become a country so thirsty for a president of moral certainty we are willing to embrace a candidate who represents one religion, and one religion only, rather than the mixed religious bag that a free nation allows and encourages?
It is hoped that this is only the nasty tendency of Republican conservatives and not the whole country. If Huckabee wins the GOP nomination, the Democratic candidate can dispatch him back to Arkansas next year. Happy holidays.
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SIGHTINGS
November 5, 2007 -- CAROLINE Kennedy Schlossberg and her aunt Lee Radziwill delightedly exclaiming, "What are you doing here?" when they bumped into each other at City Center at intermission of Christopher Wheeldon's dance "Morpheses."
SIGHTINGS
November 5, 2007 -- CAROLINE Kennedy Schlossberg and her aunt Lee Radziwill delightedly exclaiming, "What are you doing here?" when they bumped into each other at City Center at intermission of Christopher Wheeldon's dance "Morpheses."
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