Her daughter, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, was the most private, making a name for herself as a serious young lawyer and writer. That venture showed that John Jr. had inherited some of his father's and grandfather's instinct for promotion. Ironically, he may have lived out his father's life. President Kennedy, who had worked as a journalist for a while before going into politics, told friends occasionally that he might buy a newspaper or start a magazine after he left the White House. Even after full terms, the father would have been only 52 years old when he returned to private life.
Dreams die young.
Many, many Americans will only remember tiny John-John, valiantly saluting his father's coffin in the dark days of November of 1963. The president's son was getting out of the pool and his father pulled his trunks down below his little buttocks and pushed him gently away from the ladder. His father did it again. That night, while their father was at dinner with friends, John and his sister, Caroline, came in to the dining room to say goodnight. Veteran political reporter Richard Reeves has covered a succession of American presidents.