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The Cookie TreeTelling Mom you were bored was a mistake. “Oh, that’s terrible!” she’d say, meaning it was a terrible thing for me to say. “Look at all these toys and to think you’re bored with all these toys and there are so many kids that don’t have toys. Shame. Go draw me a nice picture - you like to draw. Go clean up your room - when’s the last time you cleaned your room?” Yeah – it was a mistake.It was one of those sweltering August afternoons that southern Ohio was famous for. It was so hot and sticky that even the thought of doing...
In 1959, Robert Kennedy, his wife Louise and children Connie, Robbie and me, 1-year-old John, moved from Centerville Ohio to a small house in McLean Virginia, then a relatively new working-class suburb of Washington, DC. Another Robert Kennedy, his wife Ethel and their six (of what would be 11) children also lived in McLean – but in a decidedly more notable home. Their large 1865 brick house sat on 6 or so acres and was called Hickory Hill. Bobby Kennedy had bought the property from his brother John in 1956 after John entered the US Senate....
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