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For many older Americans, Kennedy will always be remembered as the captivating blonde child who had a pony named Macaroni and whose parents each became icons – JFK, the assassinated president, and Jackie Onassis, the paparazzi magnet. While her mother and her older brother, John Jr, rarely escaped intensive scrutiny, Caroline quietly attended Harvard University and Columbia Law School, married Ed Schlossberg, a fellow lawyer, and had three children who were kept well away from the public eye.
Over the years she co-wrote a couple of law books, worked for numerous charitable foundations and supported liberal causes. She overcame the assassination of her uncle, Robert F Kennedy, the death of her mother from cancer and the deaths of her brother and sister-in-law in a plane crash.
Her admirers portray her as a clever, discreet, behind-the-scenes influence who may not have held political office but who has worked all her life with those who do.