On this month's cover of Esquire, we have JFK, RFK, and Ted Kennedy as you've never heard seen or heard them before. Plus: head to Esquire.com for the complete Kennedy wisdom, an ominous Obama connection and a gallery of rare Esquire covers featuring the family. But, first, 10 secrets from Camelot:
10. I had a sit-down with my dad. He said, "Now, Teddy, you have to make up your mind whether you want to have a constructive and positive attitude and influence on your time. And if you're not interested in a purposeful, useful, constructive life, I just want you to know I have other children that are out there that intend to have a purposeful and constructive life." -Ted Kennedy, spring 2009
9. Did you ever make it with my father? ... Well, that's one place I'm in first. -John F. Kennedy, according to Marlene Dietrich, after having sex at the White House, 1962
8. Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person between Nixon and the White House. -JFK, joking with a supporter, 1960
7. My brothers were my dearest friends. They were just human beings - and wanted to be considered that way - but they were extraordinary. I cared very deeply about them, loved them. I miss them. No day goes by when I don't. That gap will be with me for the rest of my life. No way to bridge that. -EMK, 1985
6. After all the abuse the blacks have taken through the centuries, whites are just going to have to let them get some of these feelings out if we are all really going to ever settle down to a decent relationship. - Robert F. Kennedy, 1968
5. Anyone who suggests "dynasty" suggests as well a system of succession. This is a failure to comprehend the democratic process in our country. -EMK, 1962
4. Two hundred years from now, will people ask, "What was wrong with us?" We had exceptional prosperity, exceptional bounty, exceptional resources. Will they say, "They had the opportunity to do something about hunger, and they refused to address it"? -EMK, 1975
3. You had better pretend you don't know me. Everyone connected to me seems jinxed. -RFK, to Ted Sorensen after Ethel Kennedy's brother died in a plane crash, 1966
2. Once you say you're going to settle for second that's what happens to you in life, I find. -JFK, 1960
1. I hope to travel to the moon someday. -EMK, July 1963
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