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"Find the People Who Actually Want to Do Things": Samantha Power Remembers Jean Kennedy Smith

| June 25, 2020

In 1944, two priests arrived at the Kennedy home to inform Joseph Kennedy Sr. and Rose Kennedy that their oldest son had been killed in World War II. Sixteen-year-old Jean, the eighth of their nine children, was devastated. After riding her bicycle to church to pray, she went next to the local hospital–to volunteer. Jean later recalled this as an obvious choice, asking, “What else could I do?”

To spend time with Jean Kennedy Smith, who died on June 17 at 92, was to be bowled over by the sheer quantity of positive energy she brought to this world.

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Samantha Power

  • Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development (2021-present)
  • United States Ambassador to the United Nations (2013-2017)
  • Anna Lindh Professor of the Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School (on-leave)
  • William D. Zabel ’61 Professor of Practice in Human Rights, Harvard Law School (on-leave)
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