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The John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University

* Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation
* Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
* Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
* Center for International Development
* Center for Public Leadership
* Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations
* Institute of Politics
* Edmund J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics
* Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy
* Mossavar Rahmani Center for Business and Government
* Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston (home of Ted Kennedy)
* Taubman Center for State and Local Government
* Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy
* Joint Center for Housing Studies
* Women and Public Policy Program

HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL Alumni:

Pete Rouse - Senior Adviser to President Barack Obama;
former co-head of the Obama-Biden Transition Project

Robert Zoellick, President of the World Bank (previously a managing director
of Goldman Sachs)

Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, President of Liberia (1st woman), took office 16 Jan 2006.

Michelle Rhee, founder of The New Teacher Project; Chancellor of the
Washington, D.C. public school system

Nancy LeaMond (MCP '74) - Executive Vice President, AARP (campaigning for reform)
http://www.healthactionno...

Full List: http://en.wikipedia.org/w...
#HKS_degree_program_alumni


Patrick J. Kennedy (1858–1929), local government (Democrat)

Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. (1888–1969),

first Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and
the U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom (leading up to WWII)
married daughter of Boston Mayor John F. Fitzgerald, "namesake and maternal
grandfather of US President John F. Kennedy"

Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Jr. (1915–1944), died in Operation Aphrodite accident as pilot of a modified B-24 Liberator in Suffolk, England

John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917–1963), U.S. representative, a U.S. senator and the 35th President of the United States

Rosemary Kennedy (1918–2005), lived in a residential care facility in Wisconsin until her death on January 7, 2005.

Kathleen Agnes Kennedy (1920–1948),

she married son and heir to the Duke of Devonshire, After being widowed when her husband, the Marquess of Hartington, was killed in action in World War II, she was killed in a plane crash in France with her lover, the 8th Earl Fitzwilliam. [wiki]

Eunice Mary Kennedy (1921–2009), She married Robert Sargent Shriver Jr., later a 1972 vice-presidential candidate (co-founder of Special Olympics)

Patricia Kennedy (1924–2006),

married RAT PACK celeb Peter Lawford, son of English World War I veteran Sir Sydney Turing Barlow Lawford/ In America, Sir Sydney and Lady Lawford were treated as royalty among the well-to-do in their new neighborhood of Palm Beach, FL

Robert Francis Kennedy (1925–1968),

served as senator, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (w. anti-communist Joe McCarthy), assassinated while running for president in June 1968, U.S. attorney general in his brother's administration

At the time, Robert and Ethel met (at ski trip) he was dating Ethel's
sister, Patricia. Ethel campaigned for Bobby's brother, John F. Kennedy, in
his 1946 campaign for United States Congress, and wrote her college thesis on
JKFs book Why England Slept (his published thesis from Harvard)
.
Ethel and Robert had a total of 11 children.

Jean Ann Kennedy (born 1928),

served as the U.S. ambassador to Ireland, married Stephen Edward Smith Smith who was responsible for overseeing the trusts that benefited him and his family as well as the other children and grandchildren of Joe and Rose Kennedy. Was JFK's campaign manager and then Robert Kennedy's manager.

Edward "Ted" Moore Kennedy (1932–2009),

Senator for Boston, Mass. from 1962 to 2009, raised in Mass, New York, Florida, and England. Kennedy pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident and was given a suspended sentence.

CAROLINE BOUVIER KENNEDY (1957) — Kennedy graduated from Harvard University and earned a law degree at Columbia University blink

Married Edwin Arthur Schlossberg, founder and principal of ESI Design, is an internationally recognized designer. All four of his grandparents were Ukrainian Jews born near Poltava, Ukraine, who arrived in the United States at Ellis Island [wiki]. Graduate of Birch Wathen Lenox School and Columbia College of Columbia University.

--Columbia College private school with 'Crown' logo:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w...

Husbands Signature projects: Best Buy concept, Ellis Island Immigration History Center, Pope John Paul II Cultural Center, Reuters Spectacular at 3 Times Square, Sony Plaza and Sony Wonder Technology Lab, World Financial Center (Breezewy) World Trade Center and World Financial Center Informational Kiosks

Robert Sargent Shriver III (b. 1954)

an attorney and the president of RSS Inc., a Beverly Hills, California, music, film and philanthropic company; a Santa Monica, California, city councilman. Married Malissa Ferzuzzi, has two children.

Maria Owings Shriver (b. 1955) — a former television news anchor; First Lady of California as wife of Republican California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger; has four children.blink

Mark Kennedy Shriver (b. 1964) — a Delegate in the Maryland General Assembly

Rory Elizabeth Katherine Kennedy (born December 12, 1968)

is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and producer.
She is
the youngest of the eleven children of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy.

Feb 2, 2008--endorsed Barack Obama

Edward Moore Kennedy, Jr. — a co-founder and the president of the Marwood Group, a Wall Street investment firm.






























 

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1. myLot reputation of 35/100. Netsbridge (1897)   ranked 784 out of 3,986 in politics   3 years ago

How does an endorsement by the Kennedys imply funding of Obama's education? I thought it was alleged that Obama was an affirmation action beneficiary.


myLot reputation of 90/100. revellanotvanella (1957)   ranked 120 out of 3,986 in politics  3 years ago

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