Caroline Kennedy

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Caroline Kennedy (2013)
Caroline Kennedy with her father (1963)

Caroline Bouvier Kennedy (born November 27, 1957 in New York City , New York ) is an American author and diplomat . From November 2013 to January 2017, she served as the United States Ambassador to Japan .

Caroline is the oldest and only living child of former US President John F. Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy . Her younger brothers were John Jr. and Patrick, who died shortly after his birth.

Life

Caroline Bouvier Kennedy was named after her aunt Caroline Lee Bouvier (better known as Lee Radziwill ). At the age of six, she was drawn into a press hype after her father's murder, from which she has suffered ever since. She expressed her attitude towards public attention in her 1995 book The Right to Privacy .

Caroline Kennedy studied law at Radcliffe College and Columbia Law School, then worked for her uncle, Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy , and the New York Daily News . In 1980 she moved to the Metropolitan Museum of Art , where she met the designer Edwin Arthur Schlossberg , whom she married on July 19, 1986. The couple has three children: Rose (* 1988), Tatiana (* 1990) and John (* 1993). Today, Kennedy is president of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, among others, and writes books on American history, politics, and literature.

Together with her uncle Edward, she supported Barack Obama in his candidacy for US president in 2008 and compared him to her father. She was part of Obama's closer team that had been looking for a suitable Vice President. She was considered a possible candidate to succeed Hillary Clinton as US Senator from New York State from January 2009. However, public appearances later led to criticism of her person. On January 21, 2009, she announced that she was no longer available for this post due to personal reasons. Subsequently, in the spring of 2009 , the Catholic was under discussion to fill the post of ambassador to the Holy See . According to reports from Vatican experts from the BBC , the Vatican rejected her nomination as "unsuitable" because of her overly liberal views on abortion and stem cell research.

In 2013, Kennedy took part in the selection process for US ambassador to Japan. The nomination by President Obama was on July 24, 2013; on November 12th of the same year she was sworn in by Secretary of State John Kerry . She succeeded John Roos and was the first woman in this office in Tokyo . During her term of office, a large military area on Okinawa was returned to Japan and the first visit by a US President to Hiroshima (Barack Obama in 2016) took place.

With the election of Donald Trump as US President, she resigned from her ambassadorial post on January 18, 2017. In August 2017 it was the board of directors of Boeing selected.

Trivia

The song Sweet Caroline by Neil Diamond is dedicated to Caroline Kennedy and was used accordingly in the 2008 election campaign . The piece is also the anthem of the Boston Red Sox baseball club .

Works

  • In Our Defense: The Bill of Rights In Action. Morrow, New York 1991. (With Ellen Alderman).
  • The right to privacy. Knopf, New York 1995. (With Ellen Alderman).
  • A Patriot's Handbook. Hyperion Press, New York 2003.
  • The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Hyperion Press, New York 2001.
  • Profiles in Courage for Our Time. Hyperion Press, New York 2002.
  • A Family of Poems. My Favorite Poetry for Children. Hyperion Press, New York 2005.

Web links

Commons : Caroline Kennedy  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

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  1. ↑ Larry King Live: Lee Radziwill Shares Her Remarkable Memories , March 27, 2001.
  2. ^ NY Times: A President Like My Father , Jan. 27, 2008.
  3. ↑ Tagesschau: Clinton submits to her defeat (tagesschau.de archive), June 5, 2008.
  4. ↑ derStandard.at : Kennedy daughter could take Clinton's place in the Senate , December 6, 2008.
  5. ^ The Wall Street Journal: Not Ready for SNL, December 30, 2008 .
  6. ^ The New Yorker: Ms. Kennedy Regrets , Feb. 2, 2009.
  7. ^ Spiegel-Online: Vatican: Pope rejects Caroline Kennedy as US ambassador , April 15, 2009.
  8. ↑ CBS News: Caroline Kennedy sworn in as ambassador to Japan , November 12, 2013.
  9. ↑ Boeing: Boeing Board Elects Caroline Kennedy as New Director , August 10, 2017.
  10. ^ Spiegel Online: Application for the Senate , December 16, 2008.
personal data
SURNAME Kennedy, Caroline
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kennedy Schlossberg, Caroline Bouvier
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author and diplomat, daughter of John F. Kennedy
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , New York , United States