Evening star., 1960-11-13
The White House
Vibrote
All Kennedys Are q Team
And Move in q Body
BY MARY McGRORY
Star Staff Writer

The White House will vibrate with new young
life beginning January 20.
It will be the liveliest it has been since Teddy
Roosevelt's last "Bully!" rang through the halls.
It will see the greatest traffic in young marTieds
since the Franklin Roosevelt era.
The immediate first family will be only four
in number, counting the baby. But the President
brothers and sisters all of whom have passion
aey participated his political at stage.
Kennedys operate team and move in body. They
reune for all holidays and in between whenever possible
Compete Together
As family they compete endlessly with each other,
close against the world Sunanned and wndblown,
they seem Indifferent the comforts impatient
of Illness They banter and lot. They unde-
monsrative. They tend be thn-skinned and slight
to one is slight to ALL Kennedy understood for
instant how anyone could have opposed Brother Jack
for the presidency.
The family adjective used to be "Terifc!" 1t is
"Fantastic They brought up not much to play
the game for the games sake but to win The family
game is touch football and the White House lawn newt
ably will be the of skirmish two during the
next four years.
Kennedys like their own company best but will always
make room for bright and loyal companions The Pres-
enjoys the company Of intelectuas does his
wife possibly prefeng them to professional politicians
He is also hospitable to reporters.
The First Lady-to-Be
OF the Kennedy only the First Lady designate
Jacquene elegant, whimsical wideeyed beauty with
breahless rather hammered mode Of speech admits to
an ignorance of the fine points of politics When she
interviewed Hyanns Port just after her husband had
won the Democratic nomination, she was asked if her
expected child would be born before election day.
When is that?" she inquired pleasantly.
romantic in her youth according to her intimate
friends she has latterly acquired shrewdnesS.
Although she did not campaign with her husband. she
startled and delighted his parsans with press confer
which she said with musical indignation that she
would have to sable underwear to spend much
on wardrobe had been charged She cultivated
young woman, with pretty wit. She is devoted mother
She has, it is s;dd, held her with her rather
overwhelming in-aws. After she broke her ankle in
match early in her marriage. she excused from
pusory touch football She and her Joseph
P Kennedy, who has been controversial figure. get
swmmingly She paints picture Of the crusty formidable
doting grandfather engaging in long
with his other grandchildren, who number 16
in all.
Children the Lawn
The White House probably will be the of chill
dren parties modelled after those given by brother Robert
Kennedy and his wife Ethel their Mclean Va) estate,
Hickory Hill The Robert Kennedys the parents of
eXuberant little Kennedys who live in chds
disc of rolling lawns, dogs and ponies.
Brother Robert. his brothers campaign manager is
the closest to the Presdentelect He and his wife
among the hospitable couples in official Washington
Guests learned walk warily past the estate
ming pool. Guests have been known to be pushed in.
White House life under the convval close-knit Ken
nedy clan presided by the gentle First
should in be something to see-perhaps sort of
Irish version of You Can't Take 1t With YOU"