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"To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin."
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"I am so excited to extend myself behind the scenes as a designer and to - as my father puts it - finally have a real job."
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"My dad says I could sing before I could talk, if that's possible. I was always humming and things like that."
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"My father is the jailhouse. My father is your system... I am only what you made me. I am only a reflection of you."
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"I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father."
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"The moment my doctor told me, I went silent. My mum and dad were with me, then we all went to pieces. I was saying, No, I've got my flight to Sydney in two hours. I'm getting on a plane."
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"My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker."
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"When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry."
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"Dad bought me a toy drum one Christmas, and I eventually destroyed it. I wanted a real drum and he bought me a snare drum. Dad continued to buy me one drum after the other."
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"I'm just as insufferable and useless as every other dad is. The dynamic never changes, no matter what you do for a living."
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"I used to annoy my father by telling him how much I felt luck was with me."
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"As parties began to develop around the turn of the 19th century, you had party nominees for President nominated in caucuses made up of party members in Congress."
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"So if 1960 had occurred under the old convention system, Kennedy would have had a very hard time getting the Democratic nomination because he would have been rejected by all those people who had worked with him in Washington."
Time
"The Founding Fathers would be sorry to see that America had become so divided and factionalized."
America
"Oftentimes during the period in which conventions really did business, you had situations where the delegates were divided and you would have ballot after ballot before there was a final nominee."
Business
"From the beginning of the presidential nominating conventions in the 1830's really through the 1950's, you had conventions that actually did real business."
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"To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin."
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"So the result was that as one approached a political convention for most of the 19th century and for most of the 20th century until the 1960's, part of the drama was the fact that you didn't know ultimately who was going to be the nominee at the end of that convention week."
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"Then you get to the last half of the 20th century, Americans are getting very skeptical about their leaders and their institutions, and another place that is affected is parties and conventions."
American
"The founders were very worried that if parties developed in America, you might have something like the modern Italian system, where you have 20 different parties that divide Congress and the country and can't govern."
America
"First of all, there's no mention of political parties in the Constitution, so you begin American history with not only no political conventions but also no parties."
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