Times to Remember, by Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

SELECTIVE REMINISCENCES

Somewhere toward the end of this latest addition to the Kennedy mythology, Rose Kennedy reproduces an undated note she once wrote to herself: “I would much rather be known as the mother of a great son or a great daughter than the author of a great book or the painter of a great masterpiece.” Posterity will pass on the first half of that proposition; as for the second, it must be said that “great” is not the adjective that springs most readily to mind when, at very long last, indeed, the final page (522, that is) of this book is turned.

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About the Author

Rene Kuhn Bryant

SELECTIVE REMINISCENCES

Somewhere toward the end of this latest addition to the Kennedy mythology, Rose Kennedy reproduces an undated note she once wrote to herself: “I would much rather be known as the mother of a great son or a great daughter than the author of a great book or the painter of a great masterpiece.” Posterity will pass on the first half of that proposition; as for the second, it must be said that “great” is not the adjective that springs most readily to mind when, at very long last, indeed, the final page (522, that is) of this book is turned.