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In honor of Mother’s Day, here’s an entertaining letter from JFK’s mother, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, to President Kennedy.
In 1962, Rose Kennedy wrote to Soviet Premier Khrushchev asking for an autographed photo. Learning that his mother had reached out to the Soviet Premier, JFK wrote her this letter asking her to please check with him before she took it upon herself to correspond with heads of state as requests like hers are “subject to interpretations.” The timing is interesting, considering JFK wrote back to Rose almost immediately after the Cuban Missile Crisis.
In response to this letter, Rose Kennedy wrote back, saying: “I understand very well your letter, although I had not thought of it before. …When I ask for Castro’s autograph, I will let you know in advance!”
From the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Papers/JFK Library
Tell me I can’t and I will.
- Michael Crawford
Follow us on A Certain Type!
(via goodtypography)
Dreams DO come true.
While the new Pope, Francis, has made a point of emphasizing simplicity—rather than wearing the usual gold ring, he has insisted on one made of silver—today he gave way to Vatican tradition and formally assumed his office following most (but not all) of the elaborate ceremonial script worked out in minute detail over more than a thousand years. Even within this deeply traditional institution, the script has changed, sometimes quite substantially…
Alexander Stille on the inauguration of Pope Francis: http://nyr.kr/WTLifE
Photograph by Spencer Platt/Getty.
Minneapolis!
Photo by Joseph Whitson
life:
On MLK Day, five decades after the March on Washington, LIFE.com presents pictures — many of which never ran in LIFE magazine — celebrating the people who transformed a rally into an era-defining event.
*** Were you, or was someone you know, at the March on Washington in 1963? If you have any photos from the event that you’d like to offer for possible inclusion in a special online gallery about the landmark event, please send lo-res JPEGs here, or contact us for details on how to contribute.
Not originally published in LIFE, but printed elsewhere in the years since. Martin Luther King Jr. addresses the crowd during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, August 28, 1963.
