Football
Although much to his chagrin that it was not his best sport as a performer, JFK simply loved football. Thinking it a manly and virile…
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December 19, 1940 (Thursday)
December 19, 1940 JFK was in New York before traveling to Florida for the Christmas holiday. He wrote a letter to Clare Booth Luce (whom…
December 6, 1940 (Friday)
JFK was in California during his last days of his brief stay at Stanford University. He had been working on a document to be used…
Fond
JFK wrote to pal Lem Billings from the Stanford campus that he had become fond of the place, “Have become very fond of Stanford. The…
Catching
JFK wrote Lem Billings, catching him up on his new life at Stanford, “… [I am] well, very well settled here. Have my own cottage…
Cadillac Convertible Coupe
JFK reportedly drove a black Cadillac convertible coupe while he was auditing classes for a semester at Stanford. He was reminded of this
Nancy Burkett
JFK dated her during the fall of 1940 while he was auditing courses at Stanford. She was said to be beautiful and brunette. She later…
Tom Barclay
The lead academic in the political science department at Stanford during the time in 1940 that JFK attended (not for credit) classes, including Professor Barclay’s…