I am reading Sally Bedell Smith's book "Grace and Power", about Jack and Jackie Kennedy, and I am sitting here looking at the PBS special on Leonard Bernstein. Needless to say, Jack Kennedy and Leonard Bernstein were both extraordinary people in a number of ways (Bernstein being the one with talent and charisma; Kennedy with power and charisma).
But what I am thinking about today is their circles of friends and acquaintences. They knew everyone who was anyone. Without exception. How different it must be to be in that position.
They interviewed Bernstein's three children (or perhaps it was three of Bernstein's children, I don't know), and they talk about growing up in the Bernstein house, where there were always talented people coming and going, and where they all were having a good (no, great) time. The Kennedy White House (and other Kennedy venues) was the same.
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