The Kennedy Baby Quotes

“As Robert Kennedy rushed to the hospital, the President went down the corridor filled with ailing children on the way to see his own distressed newborn. While waiting for\the elevator he paced restlessly, and his eye wandered into a nearby room, falling on a small child who had been badly burned. JFK summoned the night nurse and asked about the child and the parents. He wanted to know how the accident happened. And how often did the mother visit the hospital? When he learned the mother came every day, the President asked the nurse, “Could you tell me the mother’s name?” Taking a slip of paper and a pen from Powers he scrawled a note of sympathy to the mother. “There he was, with his own baby dying downstairs,” Powers said, “but he had to take the time to write a note to that poor woman, asking her to keep her courage up.”
― Steven Levingston, The Kennedy Baby: The Loss That Transformed JFK