When I saw it last week, it cracked me side-wise.
This photo, taken in June, could have easily been
entitled, “Dad takes Mom to meet his boss and all I got was this lousy couch
cushion.” I’m old enough to be able to envision, back in the days of Camelot,
when a Kennedy child might well have done the same thing. We were then a very
different land of the free and home of the brave but then again, those were
very different times.
The White House has been careful to not identify
anyone in the photo except to note the occasion was a departing Secret Service
agent prior to his new assignment wanting his spouse and son to meet the man he
protected for a living.
Hand on my heart, I’m not sure if I were the young man’s
age I could resist the temptation to do as he did. Heck, I’m not sure I’d be
able to not do it now. As for what exactly was going on, I think we can both guess what that youngster was looking for under the couch cushions.
I’m just grateful he didn’t bite the usherette’s
leg in the dark.
-bill kenny
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