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VerDate 11-MAY-2000 03:23 Aug 08, 2000 Jkt 010199 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6602 Sfmt 6602 E:\WAISREPT\SD007.106 ATX006 PsN: ATX006 JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY JR. 1960 ±1999 MEMORIAL TRIBUTES IN THE ONE HUNDRED SIXTH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES Printed by authority of S. Res. 161, 106th Congress Senate Document 106±7 U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON : 1999 VerDate 11-MAY-2000 03:23 Aug 08, 2000 Jkt 010199 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 5011 Sfmt 5011 E:\WAISREPT\SD007.106 ATX006 PsN: ATX006 Compiled under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing VerDate 11-MAY-2000 03:23 Aug 08, 2000 Jkt 010199 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 6011 Sfmt 6011 E:\WAISREPT\SD007.106 ATX006 PsN: ATX006 CONTENTS Page Biography .................................................................................................. v Proceedings in the Senate: Prayer ................................................................................................. 3 Introduction of S. Res. 157 ............................................................... 4 Introduction of S. Res. 161 ............................................................... 5 Tributes by Senators: Boxer, Barbara, of California .................................................... 6 Byrd, Robert C., of West Virginia ............................................. 7 Daschle, Tom, of South Dakota ................................................. 9 Dodd, Christopher J., of Connecticut ....................................... 12 Dorgan, Byron L., of North Dakota .......................................... 13 Durbin, Richard J., of Illinois ................................................... 15 Feingold, Russell D., of Wisconsin ............................................ 16 Hatch, Orrin G., of Utah ........................................................... 17 Lautenberg, Frank, of New Jersey ........................................... 18 Mack, Connie, of Florida ........................................................... 19 Mikulski, Barbara A., of Maryland .......................................... 19 Moynihan, Daniel Patrick, of New York .................................. 21 Reid, Harry, of Nevada .............................................................. 24 Sarbanes, Paul S., of Maryland ................................................ 26 Schumer, Charles E., of New York ........................................... 26 Thompson, Fred, of Tennessee .................................................. 27 Thurmond, Strom, of South Carolina ....................................... 27 Warner, John W., of Virginia .................................................... 28 Wellstone, Paul, of Minnesota ................................................... 30 Proceedings in the House of Representatives: Tributes by Representatives: Engel, Eliot L., of New York ..................................................... 31 Statements from the White House: President William J. Clinton ............................................................ 33 Vice President Albert Gore Jr. ......................................................... 33 Memorial Services Church of St. Thomas More ............................................................. 35 Special Tribute by Senator Edward M. Kennedy .................... 35 Reading by Anne Freeman ........................................................ 39 Reading by Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg .............................. 39 Commentary and Tributes In His Own Words, Los Angeles Times ............................................ 55 A Prince, But Also a Populist, Newsday ......................................... 56 Bessette Sisters: Friends, Colleagues Share Memories of Two Standouts, The New York Daily News ......................................... 61 Kennedy Genuine Article, The New York Daily News ................... 63 The Beliefs That Survive a Death in the Family, The Boston Globe ............................................................................................... 65 More Than Mere Glamour, The New York Times ........................... 67 JFK Jr.: Charity's Dream Prize, The Washington Post .................. 69 Son of Privilege Fathered Many Good Works, USA Today ........... 70 [ iii ] VerDate 11-MAY-2000 03:23 Aug 08, 2000 Jkt 010199 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 6687 Sfmt 6687 E:\WAISREPT\SD007.106 ATX006 PsN: ATX006 Page Commentary and TributesÐContinued JFK Jr. Kept his Charitable Work Private, But Helped Thou- sands, The Boston Globe ............................................................... 73 Post Reporter Recalls JFK Jr. Fondly, The New York Post ........... 75 John F. KennedyÐThe Man I Knew, The Man I'll Miss, The New York Post ................................................................................ 76 Rubles for John-John, The Washington Post .................................. 78 America's Family, The Wall Street Journal .................................... 80 He Quietly Laid Gifts of Aid Before Hundreds, The New York Daily News ..................................................................................... 82 The Kennedy Curse, and Other Myths, The New York Times ...... 84 Words of Admiration and Remembrance, USA Today ................... 86 Grace Under the Glare, Time Magazine ......................................... 90 Brought Up to Be a Good Man, Time Magazine ............................. 92 The Boy We Called John-John, Time Magazine ............................. 94 Coming of Age in Public, The New Yorker Magazine ..................... 96 The Actor, The New Yorker Magazine ............................................. 98 TriBeCa Waits for Normalcy, The New Yorker Magazine ............. 100 A Legacy of Public Service, Time Magazine ................................... 102 Answering the Call, Time Magazine ............................................... 104 Goodbye to Our Boy, Time Magazine .............................................. 105 ``That Discourtesy of Death,'' The Weekly Standard ...................... 107 Remembering John, People Magazine ............................................. 109 A Death in the American Family, Newsweek Memorial Issue ...... 112 A Tribute, Newsweek Memorial Issue ............................................. 116 Great Expectations, Vanity Fair ...................................................... 118 Editor's Letter, George Magazine ..................................................... 120 Statement of Paul G. Kirk Jr., Board Chairman of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, John F. Kennedy Library Newsletter ...................................................................................... 122 [ iv ] VerDate 11-MAY-2000 03:23 Aug 08, 2000 Jkt 010199 PO 00000 Frm 00006 Fmt 6687 Sfmt 6687 E:\WAISREPT\SD007.106 ATX006 PsN: ATX006 BIOGRAPHY JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY JR., Editor-in-Chief of George Maga- zine was born in Washington, D.C., November 25, 1960 to then President-Elect John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. He attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, grad- uating in 1979. In 1983 he graduated from Brown University with a degree in History and took a position in the New York City Office of Business Development in 1984. JOHN spoke movingly before the Democratic National Convention in Atlanta in 1988. Mindful of the social responsibilities his family had always undertaken, he started Reaching Up, a support and ad- vanced training program for those working with people with men- tal retardation in 1989. Turning to law, JOHN graduated from New York University Law School in 1989 and held a job as Prosecutor in the Manhattan Dis- trict Attorney's Office from 1989 to 1993. He was a founding mem- ber of the Profile In Courage Award Committee of the John F. Ken- nedy Library Foundation and served on it from 1989 until his death in 1999. JOHN married Carolyn Bessette in 1996, the same year he launched George Magazine. JOHN KENNEDY JR. died with his wife Carolyn and sister-in-law Lauren Bessette in his private plane when it crashed into the sea near Martha's Vineyard on July 16, 1999. [v] VerDate 11-MAY-2000 03:23 Aug 08, 2000 Jkt 010199 PO 00000 Frm 00007 Fmt 6011 Sfmt 0191 E:\WAISREPT\SD007.106 ATX006 PsN: ATX006 VerDate 11-MAY-2000 03:23 Aug 08, 2000 Jkt 010199 PO 00000 Frm 00008 Fmt 6011 Sfmt 0191 E:\WAISREPT\SD007.106 ATX006 PsN: ATX006 MEMORIAL TRIBUTES TO JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY JR. VerDate 11-MAY-2000 03:23 Aug 08, 2000 Jkt 010199 PO 00000 Frm 00009 Fmt 6011 Sfmt 6011 E:\WAISREPT\SD007.106 ATX006 PsN: ATX006 VerDate 11-MAY-2000 03:23 Aug 08, 2000 Jkt 010199 PO 00000 Frm 00010 Fmt 6011 Sfmt 6011 E:\WAISREPT\SD007.106 ATX006 PsN: ATX006 PROCEEDINGS IN THE SENATE MONDAY, July 19, 1999. PRAYER The Senate met at 12:01 p.m. and was called to order by the President pro tempore [Mr. Thurmond]. The Chaplain, Dr. Lloyd John Ogilvie, offered the following prayer: Gracious God, You have made this life but a small part of the whole of eternity. You have defeated the enemy of death and made it a transition in living. Our life here on earth is only an inch on the yardstick of forever. You are Lord of earth and of heaven. It is in this confidence that we join this prayer with the millions of prayers for the Kennedy and Bessette families. Grant them super- natural strength, comfort, and courage in their time of immense anguish over the plane accident involving JOHN F. KENNEDY JR., his wife Carolyn, and her sister, Lauren Bessette. O dear God, we speak of these three remarkable young leaders in the present tense for, regardless of the outcome of this tragic accident, they are