Crossposted at Daily Kos and The Stars Hollow Gazette
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“Kennedys Never Complain”
No observation by Joseph Kennedy Sr. had as much lasting influence as a similar dictum: “There’ll be no crying in this house.”
The “House” he had in mind, I am certain, was the House of Kennedy. He repeated this admonition to all of us, and he pronounced it with the force of moral law, and all of us absorbed its import and molded our behavior to honor it… To understand the profound authority of this charge to us is to understand much about my family.
— Edward M. Kennedy, True Compass, p. 41