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Patrick Kennedy, son of Sen. Ted Kennedy and nephew of President John F. Kennedy, remembers being a young state legislator in Rhode Island some 30 years ago and hearing encouraging words from the opposition leader at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI just want you to know that no matter what you do, nothing\u2019s going to take away from everyone\u2019s memory and appreciation of what your family has done for this country,\u201d Republican David Dumas told him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe meant that \u2018Don\u2019t preoccupy yourself with worrying about whether you\u2019re a good representative of your family or not,\u2019\u201d Patrick Kennedy, now a former congressman, said in a recent Zoom interview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kennedy spoke shortly before the 60th anniversary of the assassination of President Kennedy, a seismic national event that predates most American lives but remains an inflection point in the country\u2019s history \u2014 as a wellspring of modern conspiracy theories, as a debate over what JFK might have achieved, as an emotional cornerstone of the Kennedy story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The limousine carrying mortally wounded President John F. Kennedy races toward the hospital seconds after he was shot, Nov. 22, 1963, in Dallas. The 60th anniversary of President Kennedy’s assassination, marked on Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2023, finds his family, and the country, at a moment many would not have imagined in JFK’s lifetime. (AP Photo\/Justin Newman)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The anniversary arrives at an unusual moment for the Kennedys. It is a moment when the family\u2019s mission to uphold a legacy of public service and high ideals competes for attention with the presidential candidacy of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whose anti-vaccine advocacy and inflammatory comments about everything from the Holocaust to the pandemic have led to a rare public family breach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert\u2019s sister, Kerry Kennedy, has cited her differences with him \u201con many issues,\u201d while Jack Schlossberg, grandson of President Kennedy, has called Robert\u2019s candidacy \u201can embarrassment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe haven\u2019t seen this happening before in the Kennedy family,\u201d says historian Thurston Clarke, author of books on President Kennedy and his brother Robert. \u201cIn the past,\u201d Clarke says, \u201cthey were very reluctant to attack each other.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Long tradition in the public eye<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The current prominence of Robert Kennedy Jr. \u2014 what Patrick expects will be a footnote to a larger narrative \u2014 doesn\u2019t stand out merely because of what he says and how it departs from family history. It stands out because he is the rare Kennedy these days engaged in national electoral politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks during a campaign event, Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2023, in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo\/Meg Kinnard)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

For generations, the Kennedy dynasty ranked with the Adamses, the Roosevelts and the Bushes. Their time in public office dates to the 1890s, to Rep. (and future Boston Mayor) John Francis \u201cHoney Fitz\u201d Fitzgerald, JFK\u2019s grandfather, and grew throughout the first half of the 20th century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During JFK\u2019s 1960-63 presidency, governing was decidedly a family affair. Robert Kennedy was attorney general and the president\u2019s closest adviser, brother-in-law Sargent Shriver was heading the newly formed Peace Corps and brother-in-law Stephen Smith was White House chief of staff. Youngest brother Ted Kennedy was elected to John F. Kennedy\u2019s former Senate seat in Massachusetts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The death of President Kennedy, and Jacqueline Kennedy\u2019s remembrance of his administration as a lost golden age, \u201cCamelot,\u201d intensified feelings about the family and longings for their presence. Ted Kennedy became a revered liberal voice and legislator, while Shriver was chosen as George McGovern\u2019s running mate in their unsuccessful 1972 presidential campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Patrick Kennedy was an eight-term congressman from Rhode Island; Joseph Kennedy II, Robert\u2019s son, served 6-terms as a congressman from Massachusetts; and Joseph\u2019s sibling Kathleen Kennedy Townsend was a two-term Maryland lieutenant governor. Arnold Schwarzenegger, married at the time to JFK\u2019s niece Maria Shriver, was California\u2019s governor for two terms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Former U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I. (AP Photo\/Steven Senne)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

But the Kennedys have mostly withdrawn from electoral politics in the 21st century; no Kennedy or Kennedy in-law currently serves in Congress or as a governor. Caroline Kennedy, JFK\u2019s daughter and only surviving child, had been open in 2009 to replacing Hillary Clinton in the U.S. Senate after Clinton was appointed secretary of state by President Barack Obama. She soon stepped back amid signs New York Gov. David Paterson would not select her. He didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGiven what happened to their father and uncle, and given the tough road Ted Kennedy had to travel, who can blame them for finding another road?\u201d ” says historian Sean Wilentz. He says the assassinations of JFK and Robert Kennedy may have led to there being \u201ctoo much of a burden on the next generation to carry on and complete what was left unfinished.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Patrick Kennedy, who left Congress in 2011 amid struggles with substance abuse and bipolar disorder, agrees the current political atmosphere is far removed from the 1960s, when leaders such as JFK had a sense of \u201ccommon purpose.\u201d But he still believes public office worth pursuing and notes that his wife Amy ran for Congress in 2020 \u2014 unsuccessfully.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen we got out there and campaigned, it was very inspiring,\u201d Patrick Kennedy says. \u201cThere were tons of people in the grass roots who were so inspiring \u2014 to see how they were so passionate about changing the world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Huge yoke around your neck\u2019<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Kennedy administration now lives on in more in spirit than in firsthand memory. One of the last prominent White House aides, speechwriter Richard Goodwin, died in 2018. The last of President Kennedy\u2019s surviving siblings, former U.S. ambassador to Ireland Jean Smith, died in 2020. Robert F. Kennedy\u2019s widow, Ethel, is in her 90s and rarely comments publicly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Starting in 1968, after the assassination of Robert Kennedy, Ted Kennedy was the family\u2019s standard bearer and chosen orator. But no one has succeeded him since his death in 2009. The death of Caroline\u2019s brother John F. Kennedy Jr. in a 1999 plane crash ended the life of his generation\u2019s most prominent family member, the one most discussed as a possible presidential candidate. Caroline Kennedy has maintained a low profile as ambassador to Japan during the Obama administration and ambassador to Australia in the Biden administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This June 19 photo shows Caroline Kennedy during the JFK Space Summit at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston. John F. Kennedy’s daughter, Caroline will participate in the christening of a new aircraft carrier that’s named after the 35th U.S. president. (Charles Krupa\/AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat\u2019s an awesome responsibility and a huge yoke around your neck to try and have to carry that,\u201d Patrick Kennedy says of his father\u2019s stature. \u201cAnd Dad really did it \u2014 he really kept it together. But it was an incredible personal toll it took on him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Asked if he would have liked to take on his father\u2019s role, Kennedy says no: \u201cThat chapter is closed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the absence of any old-style family elder, the Kennedy most talked about is RFK Jr., who has attracted a larger following than most independent candidates. Historian Julian E. Zelizer, author of numerous works on contemporary politics, sees JFK and his brother Robert as \u201cunifying figures\u201d while finding Robert Jr. a symbol of \u201cdivision, distrust, and a kind of skepticism about the public culture.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Patrick Kennedy, who otherwise declined to discuss his cousin at length, called Zelizer\u2019s comments \u201ca pretty fair statement.\u201d Robert F. Kennedy Jr.<\/a> did not immediately respond to requests for comment but issued a statement on the anniversary and on his uncle\u2019s legacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDuring his term in office, he upheld a vision of America as a nation of peace, a vision that was abandoned after his death,\u201d said Kennedy, who promised to \u201cput us back on the road to peace.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other family members remain active in various causes, though in a less publicized way than in JFK\u2019s time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Besides Caroline, several Kennedys hold positions in the Biden administration, including Joseph Kennedy III, grandson of Robert Kennedy, who is special envoy to Northern Ireland; and Victoria Reggie Kennedy, Ted Kennedy\u2019s widow and now ambassador to Austria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Former Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I. son of Sen. Ted Kennedy and nephew of President Kennedy, still believes public office worth pursuing. (AP Photo\/Andrew Harnik)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Patrick Kennedy is founder of the mental health advocacy group Alignment for Progress<\/a> and notes that the last bill signed into law by JFK, the Community Mental Health Act, is \u201cthe foundation of a modern day movement to restore a community based approach to our mental health and addiction crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Timothy Shriver chairs the board of the Special Olympics,<\/a> which his mother (and President Kennedy\u2019s sister) Eunice Shriver helped establish in the 1960s. Kerry Kennedy, Robert\u2019s daughter, is a human rights lawyer who heads the non-profit RFK Human Rights.<\/a> Kerry\u2019s sister Rory Kennedy is a prize-winning documentary maker whose subjects have ranged from rural Mississippi and the Iraq War to a film about her mother, Ethel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere are many other ways to serve the public than running for elective office,\u201d says political analyst Larry Sabato. \u201cNo one could say the Kennedy family hasn\u2019t made many contributions to public life \u2014 and sacrifices, too.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI can literally go through all of my family and there isn\u2019t one who\u2019s not out there doing something,\u201d says Patrick Kennedy, who finds his name still holds great influence in his current work. \u201cI\u2019ve been out of office since 2011, and I can get anyone to return my call.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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