Dave Powers person
also: political wise guy, political operator, Powers
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Dave Powers host_asserted
“the son of a dock worker who had died when Powers was two, leaving his widow and eight children, the political operator knew the dreams and heartaches of the families crowded into the neighborhoods. When Kennedy first approached him in Char…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 16 @ 41:19
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John F. Kennedy host_asserted
“There was nothing like the reaction he received. He immediately was surrounded by all of these Charlestown's mothers. And in the background, I could hear them saying, he reminds me of my own son. It was overwhelming. Powers finally gave in.…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 16 @ 43:44
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He was a Harvard-educated candidate and seemed too aloof to run with that pack. Joe Kennedy tried to outfit his son with the best campaign brain trust money could buy, but JFK preferred to work with the young war veterans like himself. Jack…
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the son of a dock worker who had died when Powers was two, leaving his widow and eight children, the political operator knew the dreams and heartaches of the families crowded into the neighborhoods. When Kennedy first approached him in Char…
▶ 41:46
sprawling politics. In fact, the young man who would soon be diagnosed with Addison disease and who was told that he would not live past 45 did not seem long for this world. As the 1946 campaign got underway, Kennedy was plagued with severe…
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He was described by Powers as aggressively shy. Even after Powers turned him down over drinks, Kennedy kept dogging him, showing up a few nights later at his family's three-decker flat, peppering with questions. Well, if you were helping me…
▶ 42:47
JFK was addressing a group of gold star mothers, women who had lost sons in the war at Charlestown American Legion Hall. As Kennedy began to speak, a hush fell over the crowd. Power stood listening in the back of the room. And at first, the…
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Kennedy, whose own family had lost their firstborn son, Joseph Patrick Kennedy Jr., in the final days of the war found his voice. I was getting kind of nervous, Powers would say years later. And then Jack looked out at all of those women. I…
▶ 43:44
There was nothing like the reaction he received. He immediately was surrounded by all of these Charlestown's mothers. And in the background, I could hear them saying, he reminds me of my own son. It was overwhelming. Powers finally gave in.…