Just disregard the murder, rape, drunkenness, corruption, infidelity etc.
Via CNS News:
Secretary of State John Kerry reminded Caroline Kennedy, the new U.S. ambassador to Japan, that he’s known her since she was four-and-a-half years old, when he stepped on her foot and caused her to break into “wild tears.”
Speaking at a reception in Kennedy’s honor at the Japanese ambassador’s residence in Washington on Tuesday, Kerry said that Caroline will contribute to the U.S.-Japanese relationship “in so many significant ways.”
It’s not what she knows, but who she knows — and the famous name she carries.
Here’s an excerpt from Kerry’s speech:
I think it is true — and I think everybody here knows this — that because of her family and because of the road she has traveled -– it’s hardly the road less traveled –- but she has done so with special grace and with the captured imaginations of all Americans who, from the time she was ye high, have watched her.
And in many ways, she’s been an ambassador all her life. She has worked so brilliantly in New York City – the work that she did with the New York schools, bringing people together, a convener, not content to simply be who she was by birth, but be who she was going to be by definition of her own choice. And so she’s always done that – written the books, went to law school, but – not a practicer – but used the experience to apply to everything else that she does. Her work with the Kennedy Library, which I got to know so well, is beyond special.
And I think that everybody here would agree that she has superbly carried into public life, and her life, the ethos of her family, which her father so expressed, which is sort of reach out beyond yourself, live beyond your own persona in an effort to try to make a difference. And I know how proud Uncle Teddy would be if he were here.