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• I wanted to know how Jackie felt about [John F. Kennedy], and I got to know Rachel "Bunny" Mellon. Bunny and her were buddies. I asked, "How do you know what Jackie knew?" And Bunny said, "She told me."... Jackie called him "Magic." Bunny said she just picked her man. That was it. This was the guy she loved.

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  Men, Guy, Magic

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• I see some parallels [with Barack Obama] but I don't see the leadership that this guy [John F.Kennedy] had of other men and women. It's more than being the smartest guy in room.

  Chris Matthews

  Men, Guy, Rooms

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• The Kennedys formed a Kennedy party.

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  Party

  "Searching for the human JFK". Interview with Thomas Fitzgerald, www.philly.com. November 1, 2011.

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• This is a fundamental question, Mr. Mayor [ Rudy Giuliani ]. Is the president of the United States legitimate or not? Do you believe it? If you believe it, why doesn't your candidate state it.

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  Believe, President, United States

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• A couple of Donald Trump people, including his vice presidential running mate, Mike Pence, the governor of Indiana, and of course, Dr. Ben Carson, have both come out in the last days, hours, practically, and said they believe President [Barack] Obama is a legitimately elected president of the United States.

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  Running, Couple, Believe

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Anybody can say anything they want. Hillary Clinton can control her own campaign.

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  Say Anything, Campaigns, Want

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• There is absolutely no record ever of Hillary Clinton or anyone in her campaign ever saying that President [Barack] Obama is not legitimate.

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  President, Campaigns, Records

  "Things just got very, very heated between Rudy Giuliani and Chris Matthews". www.washingtonpost.com. September 8, 2016.

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• I'm trying to put the ridiculousness to bed. The president of the United States is the president of the United States.

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  Trying, President, Bed

  "Things just got very, very heated between Rudy Giuliani and Chris Matthews". "Hardball", www.washingtonpost.com. September 8, 2016.

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• It was fascinating what a total interest he [John F. Kennedy] had in his tradecraft of being a politician. I didn't realize before that he was working on his memoirs all along, how he ran for Congress, that sort of thing.

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  Realizing, Politician, Congress

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• Jean [Kennedy Smith, JFK's sister] told me she thinks the whole sports angle has been overplayed, that politics was central to him. This nonsense that he only went into politics because his older brother Joe was killed is not true. He was determined he was going to be in politics, but he would have waited his turn.

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  Sports, Brother, Thinking

  "Searching for the human JFK". Interview with Thomas Fitzgerald, www.philly.com. November 1, 2011.

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• How much he was shaped by being in the hospital so much as a kid. Because he was sick, he was a reader, and because he was a reader, Kennedy had heroes. Because he had heroes, he went into politics. [Kennedy liked Sir Walter Scott, King Arthur's knights, and biographies of political leaders.] If he hadn't been sick, he might have been like everybody else in the family, a jock.

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  Kings, Hero, Kids

  "Searching for the human JFK". Interview with Thomas Fitzgerald, www.philly.com. November 1, 2011.

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• Ben Carson's not really a factor anymore. I hate to say that of anybody, but he isn't a factor anymore.

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  Hate, Ben Carson, I Hate

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• [Hillary] Clinton was able to assemble a winning Democratic coalition out here, beating Sanders among African-Americans, women, among women, and voters from union households, so, unions, women, African-Americans.

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  Winning, African American, Unions

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Hillary Clinton did better among working-class whites when she's running against Barack Hussein Obama. How is she doing now against an older, a professor type, who seems very unthreatening, very likable.

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  Running, Class, Hussein

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• If Bernie Sanders hasn't been able to draw a contrast with Hillary Clinton, why is he doing so well, a guy - most people never heard of this fellow before this year.

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  People, Guy, Able

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Bernie Sanders even reminded me of the way I felt at parties over the years. You go to a party, you don't know anybody, you sort of wander around. You hold a drink in your hand, you don't know what to do. This poor guy Bernie, he was at a loss with this group of people he didn't know.

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  Party, Loss, Hands

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Most politicians have to find a way past that allergy. They have to find a way to go door to door, person to person, or else they don't win.

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  Winning, Past, Doors

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• [Donald] Trump faces the perhaps accumulation of all the wealth in the world on the head of [Marco] Rubio, because Rubio's the last gasp of hawks and establishment Republicans.

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  Hawks, Lasts, Faces

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• A new poll out taken by a Republican group that shows most Democrats prefer socialism to capitalism. Those terms don't mean what they did maybe 40, 50 years ago.

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  Taken, Mean, Years

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I never wrote off [Donald] Trump.

  Chris Matthews

  Trump

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• While I have questions about the language used in describing the two economic systems, I think people have fairly good gut sense of the difference between socialism and capitalism.

  Chris Matthews

  Thinking, Two, Differences

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The fact that younger people are more inclined to socialism may well come with the fact that so many young people's first experience with capitalism is as a debtor.

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  People, Debtors, May

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I always thought of him [Jack Kennedy] as a prince, with a charmed life. He was a guy who was sick and in horrendous pain all the time - who would say, "I wish I had a few good days."

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  Pain, Good Day, Sick

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• We are trying to pick the next president, not review the birth of the current president.

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  Trying, President, Next

  "Things just got very, very heated between Rudy Giuliani and Chris Matthews". "Hardball", www.washingtonpost.com. September 8, 2016.

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• Even if you're not a Catholic, even if you're not a Christian, in fact even if you have no religious faith at all, what people could see in Pope John Paul was a man of true and profound spiritual faith.

  Chris Matthews

  Christian, Spiritual, Religious

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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