President John Kennedy gives the order to take off from Otis Air Force Base for his summer home at nearby Hyannis Port via helicopter, June 30, 1961. I had many wonderful experiences with the family," Luddington said. "I had the great privilege of flying with him in the helicopter from Hyannis Port and then Air Force One onto the White House. He remembers Jackie Kennedy arranging for him to fly to Washington with the president when Luddington did some work for the family there. Like many Cape Codders, Luddington has fond memories of being so close to the country's most powerful family. P.S.: Other than that, you're OK," Luddington recited, laughing. She wrote suggesting that "he not stand with his hands in his pockets, but to keep them down by his sides. In one 1962 note, after JFK's photo was in the New York Times, Rose gave some advice about her son's presidential appearances. The notes are straightforward, reminding the president to make a dentist appointment or go to church, and they were always written with humor. "She bombarded the children with notes - two or three lines dashed off every day," Luddington said. He also has several notes JFK's mother Rose wrote to her children. Luddington has dozens of Kennedy artifacts, some of which will be displayed at the JFK Museum in Hyannis - including a note JFK wrote to his parents requesting an increase in his allowance. An unidentified man is seen reading on the porch of one of the Kennedy family homes in Hyannis Port. Edward Kennedy and now a state senator in Connecticut. The president's summer home is now owned by Ted Kennedy, Jr., son of the late Sen. Kennedy and the ambassador - from Joseph Kennedy's time as ambassador to London.Īmong other homes, Luddington designed JFK's home in Boston, and the JFK birthplace in Brookline, and he helped First Lady Jackie Kennedy design the home in Hyannis Port that came to be known as "the summer White House." Luddington started working with Rose and Joseph Kennedy, JFK's parents, whom Luddington still calls Mrs. The three homes in the Kennedy compound are in an unassuming residential neighborhood, mostly obscured from street view by tall wooden fences and shrubs.Įthel Kennedy, JFK's sister-in-law, still lives there. Kennedy with his wife, Jacqueline, as he holds their daughter, Caroline, outside their home in Hyannis Port on Nov. "The house is a symbol of the Kennedys because so much happened there, especially during the presidential years with different people coming there for conferences or ambassadors visiting heads of state," Luddington said. He says the iconic white clapboard main house of Rose and Joseph Kennedy, and the two summer homes of the children, are an enduring reminder of the Kennedy family. Ninety-two-year-old Bob Luddington was - and still sometimes is, even though he retired just last year - an interior designer and consultant for the Kennedy family. (Courtesy Robert Knudsen/White House Photographs/JFK Library) Kennedy drives his nieces and nephews around the lawn in a golf cart in Hyannis Port in 1963. In Hyannis alone there's the JFK museum, the JFK Memorial, the JFK legacy walk and, of course, the so-called "Kennedy family compound" in Hyannis Port. Kennedy is probably still the most visible - even now with his 100th birthday next week. Cape Cod is the place where the legacy of President John F.
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