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Glynnis MacNichol

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Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

Oh, I think the reason Hillary was holding off announcing, she spent all of 1999 doing these sort of trial balloons, should I run for Senate?

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Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

And it's because Daniel Moynihan, the iconic senator, said,

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Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

from New York had announced his resignation and they were waiting to see if JFK Jr.

Infamous
Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

was going to throw his hat in the ring, that there was a sense that George had been sort of his political launchpad.

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Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

And now that he was married and,

Infamous
Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

you know, and the seat opened up in New York, was he going to throw it in the ring?

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Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

And so there was a lot of people sort of holding their breath.

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Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

So I think, but could she have handled being a political wife?

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Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

I think the real question is the first time she was photographed smiling was like six weeks before they died.

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Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

Like there was this sort of sense that maybe she was a little bit coming out of the fog, but also they were reportedly living apart at the time that the plane crashed.

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Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

So I think either they get divorced and he finds a more

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Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

you know, classic political wife who wants to take the back seat and she becomes, you know, sort of like an extraordinary New York character who, I don't know, goes on Real Housewives at some point, who knows, or, or she, you know, throws in and they make a, they move to

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Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

I don't know, a building with a doorman so she doesn't have to walk outside and be yelled at by people constantly.

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Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

My favorite topic.

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Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

I think it's primarily her more than JFK Jr.

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Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

I think he's a bit of an anchor, as powerful, good-looking men often are in the beginning of why we become interested in certain women.

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Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

I moved to New York in 1997, less than a year after they were married.

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Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

Well, it's funny.

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Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

I landed here the year before Sex and the City started.

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Who Was Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, Really?

aired it started in 98 and i never watched it until a year after it ended because i didn't have a television set i was a waitress in the village and cynthia nixon was a somewhat regular there and none of us knew who she was because none of us had cable except one waitress who would get so excited when she came in and none of us had any clue what she was referencing and we'd be like i just remember sometime in 1999 being like why am i serving so many fucking cosmopolitans