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John F. Kennedy and President Charles de Gaulle, Paris, 1961 - Kennedy
visited Paris in the summer of his first year as president, and
Parisians lined the streets cheering and craning for a glimpse of
him riding with the French president in an open car. Honor guards
in their plumed helmets and gold epaulets on their galloping horses
surrounded the procession. It was what an official state visit should
be: full of pomp and circumstance. John Kennedy Jr. asked me for
a copy of this photograph for his office at George magazine. He
thanked me with a note saying, "this was when politics was
fun." |
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