PROFILES IN COURAGE AT TIFFANY'SApril 3rd • Tiff any & Co. Chevy Chase
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THE EVENT
More than 100 guest of the Kennedy
Library Foundation gathered at Tiff any & Co. in
Chevy Chase to celebrate the 50th anniversary
of "Profi les in Courage," John F. Kennedy's book
on eight U.S. senators whom he admired for
their acts of political heroism. The evening, cohosted
by Caroline Kennedy and Sen. Edward
Kennedy, launched a $9.2 million fundraising
drive for the John F. Kennedy Profi le in Courage
Award program.
THE SCENE
Guests listened as
former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright
gave an emotional speech, saying, "For me and for
millions of others, the term 'profi les in courage'
will always be associated with what John Kennedy
did as well as what he wrote. The phrase itself has
become part of our vocabulary."
THE GUEST
Rep. John Lewis, former Governor of Michigan
James Blanchard and his wife Janet, former I.R.S.
commissioner Mortimer Caplin, Jack Valenti and
Jane Friedman, president and CEO of Harper
Collins, the publisher of "Profi les in Courage."
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Profile in Courage Award,
designed by Edward Schlossberg |
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Bruce Eisen and Camille Biros |
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Rep. John Lewis, Sen. Edward Kennedy and Kara Kennedy Allen |
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