Please don't let the Russians A-Bomb Santa: Caroline Kennedy remembers JFK letter

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Christmas, from when America had a kind, intelligent, hard-working and enlightened President...

Caroline Kennedy remembers JFK letter

Associated Press
Mon Dec 24, 1:24 PM ET

NEW YORK - Over the years, Caroline Kennedy sometimes wondered about a third grader who wrote to her father, President Kennedy, worried that Russian bomb tests at the North Pole would kill Santa Claus.

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That girl, now Michelle Rochon Phillips, recounted what prompted her to write the October 1961 letter. She said she sat down to write the letter after hearing her parents talking at the dinner table about nuclear testing at the North Pole.

"I thought well, Santa Claus," she said, according to a transcript of the interview. "And so I ran, sat down at the footstool and wrote the letter."

Then a Marine City, Mich., third-grader, she wrote: "Please stop the Russians from bombing the North Pole because they will kill Santa Claus."

The president wrote back, and closed his note by saying, "You must not worry about Santa Claus, I talked with him yesterday and he is fine." He added, "He will be making his rounds this Christmas."

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Thanks, Buzzflash, for the heads-up!

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to You and Yours, DU and everyone!

[burrowowl]

1. I saw her on C-Span2

about her book. Sounds like I might have to buy it.

[Octafish]

2. She's a woman of letters, like her parents.

Too bad Caroline and the Kennedy's don't get the media exposure they deserve, rather than the Prescott-Nixon-E Howard Hunt-Poppy version of history.

That book does sound like a good read. Christmas hath 12 days...

[bleever]

3. Hope is alive.

Not as a puppet, while corporations strip mine the American Dream.

Not as a flag, waved feverishly when the Commies/Evil Empire/Axis of Evil are invoked as making their scary noises.

Hope is alive, because the ideal of democracy is alive, and because even when buried under avalanches of fear and confusion and flurries of furious contradiction, it remains true that the power of each individual human being contains a divine spark.

Any true power harnesses that spark; other structures are built upon a less permanent foundation.

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4. the power of each individual human being contains a divine spark...

Hope IS alive!

Thank you, bleever. That is beautiful and profound and true.

That also is why the good people of the United States have stood up to these turds in the White House.

And your words are why our country will succeed and the BFEE will not.
Their "reality" is built on lies, the biggest of which is that one human life is "worth" more than another.

As you know, Each human life is of infinite worth.

[bleever]

5. Kicking this Christmas story

for more to enjoy.