{"id":6903,"date":"2014-12-04T21:25:57","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T01:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dailyjfk.com\/?p=6903"},"modified":"2014-12-05T21:32:41","modified_gmt":"2014-12-06T01:32:41","slug":"ed-mclaughlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyjfk.com\/ed-mclaughlin\/","title":{"rendered":"Ed McLaughlin"},"content":{"rendered":"
Edward McLaughin, Jr. was an attorney and friend of JFK. It was to McLaughlin that Kennedy made his infamous remark about the women that he dated, “I think they see a dollar sign.”<\/p>\n
McLaughlin first met Kennedy when they served as lieutenants in the Solomon Islands in 1943. McLaughlin was from Boston and had graduated from Dartmouth in 1942, enlisting soon after graduation. He was eventually sent to Officer Candidate School at the Harvard Business School and was sent to the South Pacific as a supply officer there in 1943.<\/p>\n
Although not required to do so, he often went out on patrol on PT boat missions, surviving some close calls. It was likely on one of these sojourns that McLaughlin met Kennedy, another young Navy officer with deep family roots in Boston.<\/p>\n
After several months in the Solomons, Ed came down with “dinky fever”, a likely case of dengue fever. While he was in Sick Bay, he heard of the sinking of PT 109, the boat commanded by his good friend Jack Kennedy.<\/p>\n